A Portuguese Rococo carved rosewood commode D. Jose, mid-18th century

With scattered minor age and construction cracks. Scattered minor losses to wood; not extensive. Scattered minor abrasions and dents to carving; not extensive and most to feet. Rebacked. Top and feet possibly later. Patches to drawers at around escutcheons. Small patches behind handles. Remounted, mounts now with rubbing, oxidation and surface dirt. Refinished. In good overall condition.
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English furniture makers and designers of the mid-18^th century, such as Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite, were influential in Portugal and Latin America in the third quarter of the 18^th Century, during the reign of King Joseph I (1750-77). This was one of the consequences of England and Portugal signing the treaty of Methuen in 1703, under which in return for preferential duty on wines, the Portuguese undertook to import English goods.