Beschreibung:

A ROYAL SPANISH BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, EBONY, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY COMMODE ATTRIBUTED TO JOSE CANOPS, AFTER DESIGNS BY MATTEO GASPARINI THE BRONZES POSSIBLY BY JUAN BAUTISTA FERRONI, CIRCA 1765-75 The shaped giallo Siena marble top above a latched frieze, raising to reveal smaller compartments, above two long drawers, carved throughout with black floral sprays within marquetry and parquetry cartouches, inlaid with scrolling brass designs featuring birds on the front of the frieze and fish to the sides, raised on cabriole legs with scrolling feet, the underside of the marble marked Go Baker / 258 Madison , variously incised 4 throughout, the underside incised P with a series of dots, possibly indicating a numbering system 37 in. (94 cm.) high, 52 in. (132 cm.) wide, 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) deep Provenance One of four commodes supplied by Matteo Gasparini for the office of King Carlos III in the Gabinetes de Maderas Finas de Indias , listed on the Inventario de Carlos III for the Palacio Real de Madrid in 1776. Possibly removed from the Gabinetes de Maderas Finas de Indias, either in 1789 by Queen Maria Luisa de Parma, wife of Carlos IV, or when the Gabinetes were dismantled in the early 19th century under Fernando VII. With Henry Duveen, New York. George F. Baker, New York, by descent to William Goadby Loew, 56 East 93rd Street, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 26-28 April 1956, lot 563 (sold as ‘possibly Dresden’).