A HIGHLY IMPORTANT WALNUT BOMBE COMMODE IN THE ENGLISH TASTE

June 15 2009, 4:18pm

Mainz. Circa 1750. Of well figured walnut with finely chased gilt bronze drop handles. Of upward swelling bombé form, the chevron banded top above three chevron banded drawers incorporating a moulded central niche with rococo carving and out-turned acanthine foot, the sides with chevron banding framing a central rectangular panel, the whole raised on plain bracket feet united by a shaped apron. For an almost identical commode see Wolfgang Schwarze, Antike Deutsche Möbel (1977), p. 165, ill. 479.