A FINE GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE

A FINE GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO INCE AND MAYHEW, C.1775

of bowfront form with concave sides, the top with a large central patera inside a harewood and kingwood border inlaid with scrolling foliage, above a pair of doors with a harewood frieze inlaid with honeysuckle and scrolling foliage and with oval figural panels, the sides with oval paterae, on urn shaped feet inlaid with faux fluting

90.5cm high, 132.7cm wide, 60.2cm deep

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, Important English Furniture, 19th March 1982, lot 88.

Formerly at Malmesbury House, The Close, Salisbury.

Literature

See Hugh Roberts and Charles Cator, Industry and Ingenuity: The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, p.310, pl. 161 for a commode of the same form probably made for the Earl of Caledon, Caledon Castle.