Name: An Early 18thC Dutch Walnut Serpentine Commode c.1730-40
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 18031821386
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An Early 18thC Dutch Walnut Serpentine Commode c.1730-40

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An Early 18thC Dutch Walnut Serpentine Commode c.1730-40Origin: Dutch Period: Early 18thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1730 40 Width: 37 Height: 34 Depth: 19. 5 (all at extremities) The shaped walnut carcass of superb generous baroque bombe type form, having a moulded top above an arrangement of four long serpentine graduated drawers to shaped ends, with panelled sides each with large brass carrying handles, the frontage with brass drop handles and rococo escutcheons, to a shaped moulded base raised on

Height: 20 inches (with shield)

By the time of the death of Louis XIV there were several hundred of them at Versailles

Various Sizes

The chest shows heaps of attractive wear and tear with scuffing commensurate with its age

Furniture making using fish skin was popular especially in France during the Art Deco period

and perhaps modelled by Abington

architecture etc

terminating in a ringed

Elsewhere there is some old woodworm damage and some later replacements

overcoat and other carved elements

The scarce half life size Japanese anatomical model

Max Klinger (1857-1920)