English Painted Bow Front Commode

The top of this satinwood bow front commode has a shaped molded gallery with finials. The top and upper front are painted with circular and oval vignettes with painted lady figures...

This commode is faux painted to simulate wood and has a panel painted in each simulated drawer front which is outlined with simulated boxwood inlay. The interior has been altered fro...

English faux painted commode, painted to simulate flame mahogany. The raised panel is framed by chamfered inside and outside edges. Which are faux painted...

19th century French grain painted bow front chest, the top with simulated wood grain and crossbanding, over three drawers with simulated burl grain, swan neck brass pulls and vertica...

Hepplewhite bow front chest, the top of this mahogany chest has beautiful figured grain and the edge is banded with boxwood string inlay. T...

This commode is inlaid and crossbanded with boxwood, ebony, and satinwood. The handles are later. The lower pullout compartment has been converted to a drawer.

Y A PAIR OF SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND POLYCHROME PAINTED BOW FRONT COMMODESFIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY97cm high, 112cm wide, 56cm deep

A superb George III satinwood bow fronted four drawer chest/commode. English. Circa 1790. The commode chest has four long graduated drawers over a shaped apron, on splayed feet. It retains the original brass handles, which is rare. Veneered over solid oak in the finest quarter-sawn satinwood, banded in rosewood and mahogany, with boxwood stringing throughout. It has has been sympathetically re-finished, still retaining some authentic marks to highlight its genuine heritage. To the left hand side near the back there is some slight damage to the banding and a small piece of veneer has been re-glued back on near the escutcheon of the third drawer down. Please refer to the photographs. The drawers are lined in oak with handmade dovetail construction. The drawer sides have had slivers of oak added to make the drawers run better. The underside of the top has neat butterfly construction to the oak join, always a sign of a well made piece. There is no woodworm. Originally a commode occupied a prominent position in a house, not always for bedroom use...

This is a beautiful little English chest! Lovely patina and shine to the wood with lighter variations throughout the dark tone. The bowfront, slightly inset drawers, and detailed bra...

Small English 19th C painted serpentine oak commode. 1890. Dimensions 32 inches (81 cms) Wide 20 inches (51 cms) Deep 31 inches (79 cms) High....

19th century English painted hepplewhite bow front chest of drawers.

A single Maitland Smith ebonized five drawer bow front commode having flame decoration and leather wrapped trim. Each drawer is adorned with lion face drawer pulls.