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

with a serpentine-fronted faux-marble top above two conforming drawers and a shaped apron on cabriole legs, decorated with floral and foliate motifs in silvered cartouches on a blue ground.

Winter Antiques Show, January 19-28, 2007, New York

Highly decorative and in good overall sound condition with normal, standard repairs consistent with age and use including minor areas of retouching the painted surfaces and strengthening/maintenance of the carcase. Some losses to back left leg and with wear to the feet consistent with age. One back panel replaced.
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A virtually identical commode with red ground decoration is illustrated, Enrico Colle, Il Mobile Rococò in Italia, Milan, 2003, pl. 49. Another, in a private collection, Palermo is illustrated in Mario Giarrizzo and Aldo Rotolo, Mobili e mobilieri nella Sicilia del settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 79, n. 23.