Live Auction 6357Christie's Interiors - Style and Spirit
A PAIR OF PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD AND FLORAL MARQUETRY COMMODES
Lot 117

A PAIR OF PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD AND FLORAL MARQUETRY COMMODES

MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 7,500

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A PAIR OF PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD AND FLORAL MARQUETRY COMMODES
MID-19TH CENTURY
Of bombé form, each with a Marseilles Pink marble top with a serpentine outline, above two drawers decorated sans trasverse with sprays of foliage within a C-scroll cartouche, with foliate scroll cartouches to the sides, later gilt-metal mounts
35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 51½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

For a similar pair of Portuguese commodes see Christie's London, December 2010, lot 246. The commodes offered here, also of a bold bombé outline are inlaid with similar broad ribbon scrolled cartouches and floral marquetry. This relates to a similar pair of commodes in the Queen's dressing room in the Palace of Queluz, Lisbon. The latter pair was probably acquired at the time of Prince Don Pedro's marriage in 1760 to Princess Donna Maria Francesca (d. 1816) and is illustrated in M.I. Ferro, Queluz, The Palace and Gardens, London, 1997, p. 88.