An early 19th Century Dutch Colonial coromandel and hardwood bombe commode, of serpentine outline, the top with a central rectangular hardwood panel, having a serpentine moulded edge and sides, containing two short and three long drawers and with a carved foliate scroll shaped apron base, on lions claw and ball feet, 90cm (2ft 11 1/2in) wide.
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An 18th Century Italian provincial walnut and cross banded block front commode, the quarter veneered top with a wide banded border, containing three long breakfront drawers, the upper drawer having a hinged fall front, applied with brass oval paterae and beaded ring handles and key plates with cornucopia of flowers and foliage, having fluted column stiles and fluted apron base on fluted square tapered legs and spade feet, 126cm (4ft 1 1/2in) wide.
GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE ATTRIBUTED TO WRIGHT AND ELWICK, CIRCA 1765 after a design by Thomas Chippendale, the shaped moulded top above four long graduated drawers, flanked by panelled cupboard doors, raised on bracket feet united by a shaped apron 130cm wide, 83cm high, 66cm deep Wright and Elwick, who traded at the `Glass & Cabinet Ware House` were employed by the Marquess of Rockingham from the late 1740s, and their trade card, while advertising `Cabinet work of ye Newest Fashion`, also announced that Mr Wright had been `in ye direction of ye Greatest Tapestry Manufactory in England for Upwards of Twenty Years` (C. Gilbert, `Wright and Elwick of Wakefield`, `Furniture History`, 1976, pp. 34-43). This probably refers to the Soho tapestry workshops, which by the 1750s were under the supervision of Paul Saunders (d. 1771). Saunders, trading in partnership with George Smith Bradshaw as Upholders and Cabinet-Makers in Greek Street, was employed at this period at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, where the same French-fashioned ormolu handles, together with reed enrichments, feature on a pier-commode-table (A. Coleridge, `Chippendale Furniture`, London, 1968, fig. 370). Their introduction to the Marquess of Rockingham at Wentworth Woodhouse may have been effected through the offices of John Carr, Lord Rockingham`s architect who had steered another of his patrons, John Spencer of Cannon Hall, to Wright & Elwick of Wakefield. Much of the furniture attributed to Wright & Elwick at Wentworth Woodhouse shares similar traits: a close adherence to designs from Chippendale`s Director of 1754 and 1762
A late 19th century continental commode, the marble top with serpentine moulded front edge above a pair of serpentine panelled doors inlaid with musicians each in a landscape and with scroll border, with shaped apron and raised on cabriole legs with ormolu mounts and sabot feet. Width 29 ins.

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