AN EXTRAORDINARY LATE NEO-CLASSICAL MAHOGANY 'QUATRE FACE' COMMODE

June 15 2009, 4:33pm

German or Viennese. Circa 1790. Of mahogany with gilt-brass mounts. The projecting rectangular top above a continuous frieze fitted with two short drawers to the front, each drawer centred by a pierced key escutcheon and flanked by fluted pilasters, the two long drawers carved in relief with shaped panels, each drawer centred by a conforming escutcheon flanked by two drop handles, each handle surmounted with paired eagles heads, the sides carved in relief with geometric motifs, each centred by a lion's mask with a ring handle, the panelled back similarly veneered. The whole raised on four sabre legs.