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A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
Lot 706

A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY COMMODE

BAYREUTH OR BERLIN, CIRCA 1760

Closed15 April 2011

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A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
BAYREUTH OR BERLIN, CIRCA 1760
The rectangular top above a tapering front with four drawers mounted with gilt repoussé foliate back-plates and drawer pulls and escutcheons, inlaid with scroll, leaf and strapwork marquetry, the drawers lined with blue marbled paper
33./12 in (83 cm.) high; 46½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (65 cm.) deep

Anonoymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2000, lot 14.

Specialist note

This commode with its unusual bombé-shaped outline and inwardly-curved sides and fine marquetry strapwork can be compared to examples from Bayreuth-Berlin (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Part II, Munich, 1970, fig. 794).