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A DANISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT COMMODE
Lot 78

A DANISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT COMMODE

BY MATHIAS ORTMANN, ALTONA, MID 18TH CENTURY

Closed1 April 2009

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A DANISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARCEL-GILT WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT COMMODE
BY MATHIAS ORTMANN, ALTONA, MID 18TH CENTURY
The shaped eared and moulded white marble top above a moulded frieze with punched ground incised with foliate decoration above four shaped drawers flanked by canted angles on C-scrolled feet, with maker's label of Mathias Ortman
84 cm. high x 78 cm. wide x 50 cm. deep

Specialist note

Mathias Ortman recorded as being active between circa 1733 and 1757 and used a cabinet-maker label between 1745 and 1757.

See T. Clemmensen, Kobenhavns snedkerlaug gennem fire hundrede ar: 1554-1954, Copenhagen, 1954.