Commode
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oak carcass, veneer of kingwood, tulipwood, satiné and amaranth, gilt bronze mounts, Saint-Anne marble top
Measurements
864 x 1310 x 604 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533055
Summary
A chest of drawers or commode, French, circa 1770. Transitional, veneered in Kingwood, tulipwood, satiné and amaranth with a grey Saint-Anne marble top. A bow-shaped front with three long drawers, each with three metal lock plates (two missing 2020) The drawers are flanked by canted angles with neoclassical corner mounts above a fluted section of green stained wood stringing. Standing on cabriole feet with foliate cast sabots.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.