A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND HAREWOOD MARQUETRY COMMODE , English, circa 1775
Width: 43 in; 109 cm
Depth: 22 ½ in; 57 cm
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Note: The commode retains all its original brass mounts and has replaced back feet. The original plain timber turned back feet have been retained with the commode for safe keeping. The interior behind the door at each side is fitted with a fixed shelf.
This exceptional commode and its companion, formerly at Godmersham Park, Kent, and now in a private collection in Brazil, belong to a small group which all share the same semi-elliptical outline and Etruscan decoration and are all attributable to the workshop of Ince & Mayhew.
A closely related pair of commodes, of considerably larger scale, were formerly at Turvey House in Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Provenance
Private collection, England, since the 1950s and by descent.
Literature
David Nickerson, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1969, pp. 66-7.
Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses, Vol. I - Ireland, 1978, p. 278.
Christie’s, ‘Godmersham Park, Canterbury, Kent’, sale catalogue, 6-9 June 1983, pp. 132-3, lot 138.
Hugh Roberts, ‘The Derby House Commode’, Burlington magazine, May 1985, pp. 275-82, illus. 18.
F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency Furniture, 1987, p. 209, illus. 348.
Mallett & Son Ltd., catalogue, 2013, pp. 41-5.
