• Pier commode

  • Wilkinson tracing

Description

Each with anthemion-inlaid pediment-style three-quarter gallery flanked by acroteria, the breakfront top with canted corners above a scroll-carved frieze flanked by mahogany-lined drawers, raised on ring-turned and fluted tapering legs.

Illustrated

The design for marquetry is similar to those recorded in the ‘Tracings by Thomas Wilkinson, from the Designs of the late Mr George Bullock 1820’, City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, M.3.74.

The unusually shaped top seen on a ‘pier commode’ in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2013.25.

A Pair of Regency Mahogany Serving Tables, in the Manner of George Bullock

CIRCA 1820

Height: 45.5" Width: 83" Depth: 26.25"

Inventory Number: 8507-357

Price

$120,000

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