A near pair of German Rococo fruitwood and giltwood commodes Altona

slight differences in size, each with a rectangular molded top with a gilt bevelled border above two serpentine drawers flanked with rocaille motifs on canted corners above a serpentine base on cabriole legs; adapted, regilt.

Comparative Literature:
Annette-Isabel Kratz, Altonaer Möbel des Rokoko und Klassizismus, Hamburg, 1988, p. 174.

A similar model, with a low standing base, from the Köster manufacture and dated 1760-1770 is illustrated in Altonaer Möbel, op. cit. p. 174 catalogue no. 37, p. 212., currently in a private collection.
Another, with a very similar body on taller legs, from the same manufacture, is in an American collection and illustrated op. cit. p. 215, catalouge no. 39.