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Description: | Artist: Vile, William, maker - English cabinetmaker, ca.1700-1767; Date(s): circa 1750; Classification(s): furniture, commode, gilding, mahogany, the top inlaid with a panel of Chinese lacquer, the double doors and sides veneered with rosewood and ornamented with applied foliage of carved and gilt pine; ormolu handles; Acquisition: bought by Partridge, Frank, 1953-11-26, Purchased with the Marlay Fund [M.6-1953]
Description: Mahogany commode with serpentine front and sides, the top inlaid with a panel of Chinese lacquer, the double doors and sides veneered with kingwood and ornamented with applied foliage of carved and gilt pine; ormolu handles suspended from foliate bosses on sides. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Vile, William furniture commode | Temporal: | name=mid-late 18th Century; start=1750; end=1750 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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