An Italian polychrome painted and parcel-gilt commode Sicily, mid-18th century

with a later serpentine-fronted faux-marble top above two drawers on cabriole legs. Restorations to legs.

Winter Antiques Show, January 17-26, 2003, New York

In good overall condition, decorative small piece. Structurally reinforced with later blocks to legs and small necessary repairs to front legs as noted in the catalogue. Good craquelure, minor losses and small repairs as visible in catalogue illustration and consistent with age and use.
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A virtually identical commode is in the Antonello Governale Collection, Palermo, and illustrated in Mario Giarrizzio and Aldo Rotolo, Mobili et mobilieri nella Sicilia del settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 81, n. 26.