The crossbanded serpentine top above a baize-lined brushing slide and four graduated drawers, the angles carved with a trailing husk and headed by a cartouche above a foliate cabochon flanked by c-scrolls issuing a trailing flowerhead, on bracket feet, the top drawer with ivorine label 'M. HARRIS & SONS 44/52 NEW OXFORD ST. LONDON W.C.1.'
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 47¹⁄₂ in. (121 cm.) wide; 23¹⁄₂ in. (60 cm.) deep

Moss Harris, London.

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A commode of a very closely related form was supplied to Croome Court, Worcestershire, in the early 1760s, and is now in an English private collection. It has not yet been identified in the extensive Croome bills but the main cabinet-makers supplying for the house at that date were Vile and Cobb.
The flattened truss pilasters and incised bracket feet also relate to a design amongst a group of drawings dated 1761 and attributed to William Gomm (d.1778) of Clerkenwell Close, London (L. Boynton, 'William and Richard Gomm', Burlington Magazine, June 1980, fig. 33). Gomm supplied several related commodes to Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, of which a pair was sold in these Rooms, 3 May 1962, lot 53 and another lot 54.
A commode that was also from Whitworth Hall and supplied probably by Mayhew and Ince to Robert Shafto at a slightly later date than this commode, was sold in these Rooms, 29 November 1979, lot 65. It is from the same group as a commode in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, which is discussed in L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 24, pp. 210-217.