Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts

Stable, complete condition overall; with key. Drawers function smoothly. Bronze mounts with fairly even bright patina but some small casting cracks. Marble top old, probably original, with areas of repaired breaks and repaired chips. Some tarnished brass veneers throughout with a few areas of slightly lifted brass veneer. Light veneer cracquelure throughout. Drawer liners and top of case beneath marble with wide age cracks. Holes on the interior side walls of the case suggest that the commode had carrying handles at one time, and that some (perhaps all) of the veneers may have been repaired/replaced. Some bronze mounts are probably 19th century replacements, or have been moved from their original location. Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel in 1960, with British collection provenance prior to that.

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