IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95789 accession number: M.6-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 16 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mahogany commode, veneered in rosewood, with applied pinewood decoration. The lifting top with moulded border enclosing a recess. Serpentine shaped front and curved sides, the front with panelled doors enclosing two long drawers. The canted angles with corbels and moulded columns on shaped bracket feet. The panels to the doors are decorated with applied carved and gilt berried foliage, and wheat ears tied by ribands in moulded scroll and foliage borders. The sides with moulded foliage, and oval borders to the panels, the angles with pendant foliage and husks to the corbels and acanthus leaves. The frieze with wave ornament, the lower border egg and tongue ornament, and the bracket feet with foliage and wave ornament. The top is inset with Chinese black lacquer decorated in gold and colours with pagoda buildings, trees, and rockwork in a river landscape. The angles have fan pattern medallions. The border has a vandyck and floral design on a gold ground. Mounted with ormolu rope pattern loop handles at the sides, suspended from berried laurel foliage bosses title: commode NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Shaftesbury, KP, PC, GCVO; sold Christies' 22 October 1953, lot 101; sold for 1200 guineas to F. Partridge, 144 New Bond Street, W1. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Marlay Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95789 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied TECHNIQUES ---------- carving CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid-Late culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Vile, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 35 dimension: Width units: in value: 44 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures of Cambridge CITATIONS -------- The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum for the Year ending 31 December 1953 Chippendale Furniture. The Work of Thomas Chippendale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo Taste, Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and others circa 1745-1765 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_1953_282_29.jpg height: 382 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_6_1953_282_29.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_1953_282_29.jpg height: 382 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_6_1953_282_29.jpg height: 126 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_19539_281_29.jpg height: 568 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_6_19539_281_29.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_19539_281_29.jpg height: 568 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_6_19539_281_29.jpg height: 187 pixels width: 250 pixels