AN IMPORTANT BAVARIAN PARCEL-GILT COMMODE

Description:

mid 18th century
75 x 128 x 53 cm
Of serpentine form, the top above a slide and two long drawers, with four outset, canted and pierced legs, the whole carved with rococo foliage in gilt, on a white ground. Age related restorations.
Important Private Collection, Rhineland, with Sotheby's London, 22.5.1987, Lot 57
A commode of very similar feeling is illustrated by Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst das deutschen Möbels, Spätbarock und Rokoko, fig 439