A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY PIER COMMODES

Lot 636
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Lot 636 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY PIER COMMODES
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$ 150 000 – 200 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY PIER COMMODES

CIRCA 1755

Each with a serpentine top above a brushing slide and three graduated drawers flanked by canted angles carved with scrolled pilasters issuing floral garlands on bracket feet, recessed wooden casters, solid mahogany backs, originally designed with a leaf spanning the two tops for the option of back-to-back placement, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

31 1/2 in. (80 cm.) high, 47 in. (119.4 cm.) wide, 22 1/2 in. (57 cm.) deep





Provenance

With Mallett, London.

Eric Moller Esq., Thorncombe Park, Surrey; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1993, lot 62.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

R.W. Symonds, 'The Varying Design and Quality of Mahogany Commodes,' The Antique Collector, June 1952, fig. 14.

R.W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, p. 135, figs. 159-161.



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