THE "JULIANS PARK " GEORGE 111 CHRISTOPHER FUHRLOGH COMMODE - CABINET

THE "JULIANS PARK " GEORGE 111 CHRISTOPHER FUHRLOGH COMMODE - CABINET
ENGLISH CIRCA 1775

"HIGHLY IMPORTANT ENGLISH WORK OF ART"

A George 111 Period Ormolu- Mounted Mahogany, Amaranth, Harewood and Marquetry Breakfront Cabinet - Commode with a firm attribution to the celebrated CHRISTOPHER FUHRLOHG CIRCA 1775

Inlaid to the top and side with basket - weave parquetry, the rectangular top with canted corners and centred oval with flowering rose branches, with stiff leaf and dart edge above a plain frieze and three doors each containing a shelf, the central door with a roundel on a basket-weave ground depicting Erato playing her lyre, the side doorrs with standing Muses, one possibly Terpsichore playing a lyre, the other carrying a staff, above scrolling honeysuckle tendrils, with rosette- filled lower edge, onacanthus cast toupie feet.

Provenance H. F. Richardson Esq March 1933 (according to label)

Acquired by the Hon. Mrs Audrey Pleydell- Bouverie at Julians Park, Hertfordshire prior to 1947.

Literature
C Hussey, Julians , Hertfordshire - 11 Country Life 27 June 1947 . p 1210 fig 2 (The Entrance Hall)
J. Cornford, The Inspiration of the Past, 1985 p.40 fig 32
L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p 122, fig 118

Dimensions 80.5 cm 122.5 cm 68.5 cm