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A Swedish Neoclassical Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany and Parcel Gilt Commode Circa 1809
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- height 33 1/4 in.; width 39 1/2 in.; depth 19in.
- (84.5cm; 100.3cm; 48.3cm)
the rectangular top with later inset verde antico marble above a dentil work frieze, the top with a pencil inscription Stockholm ...mber 1809 ... Carl ... and a further pencil inscription below ... 1828. the top drawer fitted for writing above three long drawers, raised on upright formerly ebonized paw feet.
Catalogue Note
A Swedish fall front desk featuring a dentil work frieze, the same distinctive carved Egyptian busts and raised on ebonized paw feet by Lorentz Hansson Löfstedt and signed af Löfgren, Stockholm 1807, is illustrated, T. Sylvén, Mästarnas Möbler, Stockholm, 1996, p.257.