An impressive Spanish mahogany and carved giltwood commode, Mallorca Neoclassical, early 19th century

the white marble top above a demi lune veneered front containing three drawers, flanked by carved grape vines and leaves, with bulbous sides, raised to the front on griffin-headed feet, on concave-fronted platform base

L. Feduchi, El Mueble Espanol, Barcelona, 1969, fig. 231, p. 242.
J. Massot Ramis d'Ayreflor, El moble a les Illes Balears segles XIII-XIX, Majorca, 1995, p.238.

The unusual feet are very close to a drawing by Sacanell, in the manner of the Mallorcan cabinetmaker Adrian Ferran, illustrated p. 200, d'Ayeflor, op. cit., reproduced here in the catalogue.

In overall good condition, the marble top in good condition with minor rim chips, left side commode with two horizontal shrinkage cracks, the right side with one large and a few small ones, minor restorations and losses to the veneer, minor losses and wood cracks to the gilding and polychromy of the grapevines, leaves and carved griffins, especially the heads, the plinth with some dryness cracks to the veneer and some loose veneer.
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The griffin-headed feet are of unusual form, that is they are a combination of a classical griffin, a fusion of an eagle, a lion and a fish and the Greek/Phoenician mythological hippocamp, a creature which has traditionally been depicted as a horse in its forepart and with a scrolling fishlike backpart. 

A Mallorcan commode with similar griffin headed and fish tail feet and on concave-fronted platform base used to be situated in the Palacio de Truyols, Palma de Mallorca.

Above mentioned commode from the Palacio was offered in our London rooms, 8 July 2008, as lot 314 (one of near pair).