Commode
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Walnut, olivewood, purple heart, stained woods
Measurements
86 x 122 x 56 cm
Place of origin
Italy, Northern
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246024
Summary
A walnut and marquetry commode, North Italian, late 18th century. Of three drawers, the uppermost inlaid with foliate arabesques and roundels, the two lower quarter-veneered and centred by an inlaid floral roundel against a red-stained border. The uprights with purple heart veneers. On tapering square-section legs.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded; bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913) in 1942.