Commode
Unknown
ca. 1770 · Painted poplar, gesso, brass, with imitation marble top · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In Piedmont, an elaborate version of French Neoclassical furniture became fashionable during the last decades of the eighteenth century. With its rectilinear design and classically inspired ornament, the commode has retained a trace of Rococo frivolity.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1770
- Medium
- Painted poplar, gesso, brass, with imitation marble top
- Culture
- Italian, Piedmont, possibly Turin
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1947
