A SOUTH GERMAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, ENGRAVED FRUITWOOD AND PEWTER MARQUETRY COMMODE

Description:

Franconia, circa 1798
90,5 x 124 x 64,5 cm
The bowed and moulded rectangular top inlaid with a roundel with the initials BWB, surmounted by a canopy, above three long drawers, inlaid with festoons, on square tapering feet, paper label to the interior, inscribed in German: Durch die Hülff Gottes hat gantz allein der Meister deß Schreiner Handwerks namentlich Georg Friedrich Roit (?) in Schwein-furth in seinen 87 ½ jaehrigem Alter verfertigt hat Ao 1798 d. 16 July. Minor losses, re-mounted