Footnotes

• Provenance: purchased from Asprey, 165-169 New Bond Street, London, 10th November, 1988.
  
  The basic pattern for this type of elliptical commode with this form of apron appears in Messrs A.Hepplewhite and Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl.78, although this particular model relates closely to designs that appeared in Gillow's Estimate Sketch Books. A design reproduced in L.Boynton in Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston 1995, fig 120, shows the same door and drawer configuration; while another design, fig 121, shows a similar use of medallions to the doors of an elliptical commode. The handle pattern used here was a popular choice with the Gillow firm. In this case the small paterae mount that is often centred in the middle of ring handle appears on the above commode as a protector where the bottom of the ring handle meets the drawer front, protecting the veneer from damage. Susan Stuart discusses this handle pattern in Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Suffolk, 2008, p.335, pl.D9.
  

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