Lot 93
  • 93

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

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • pine, brass
  • height 38 in.; width 53 1/2 in.; depth 24 3/4 in.
  • 96.5 cm; 136 cm; 63 cm

Provenance

Foster Gwin, San Francisco

Condition

Decoration refreshed in areas with some inpainting; now with some losses. Drawers are lined with fabric. Minor old wood worm damage. Ag cracks to the top with some flaking of paint and subsequent overpaint. Some chips to the gesso.
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Catalogue Note

A very similarly decorated commode was sold The Foster-Gwin Collection, Sotheby's New York, October 28, 2008, lot 42. Another 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.