Details
Each with a rounded rectangular grey marble top above a frieze drawer and two larger drawers inlaid sans traverse and supported on turned tapering legs
3512 in. (90 cm.) high, 3712 in. (95.5 cm.) wide, 1934 in. (50 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Pelham Galleries, London, October 2007.
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Lot Essay

For two very similar examples of commodes, one with comparable elegant draped swag marquetry and the other with similarly modeled swag-form pulls, see A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, pp. 282-84, fig. 331-35.

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