Property from a Private European Collection
A PAIR OF ITALIAN LACQUERED AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODES, VENICE MID 18TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
November 12, 05:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
A PAIR OF ITALIAN LACQUERED AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODES, VENICE MID 18TH CENTURY
each with a later white marble top, later mounts, decoration restored
83cm. high, 117cm. wide, 56cm. deep; 2ft. 8¾in., 3ft. 10in., 1ft. 10in.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
S. Colombo, L'arte del mobile in Italia, Milan, 1981, no. 255.
G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del'700, Milan, 1958, tav. CDXXI.
This pair of commodes epitomizes the fashion to produce lacquered furniture pieces in Venice. Coming in different colours and decoration, the commodes rarely surviving as a pair adopt a similar shape, playful and most importantly adopt the Venetian archetypical form, the bombé shape. The organic design of the commodes is further underlined with gilt decoration elegantly framing the white lacquered ground. A similar commode blue and white lacquered was sold Sotheby's London, 5 November 2013, lot 130.