banded with rosewood, the top inlaid to each side with a shell motif between a central oval reserve of burr yew, above three frieze drawers with later pressed brass handles and three curved doors, on blind fluted square tapering legs ending in brass cappings and castors

West Horsley Place, Surrey, Inventory, 1938, Vol. 1, p.4, in the Morning Room; A 4’6” fine Sheraton satinwood dwarf Cabinet on taper legs with concave ends, with tulip and kingwood bandings, and panels of burr yew, 3 drawers and 3 doors below, brass oval plate handles. £200-0-0.;
‘West Horsley Place II’, Country Life, 1 April 1939, p. 329, illustrated in the Morning Room.

Generally very good order. Very attractive and nice quality. Typical old marks and scratches commensurate with age and use.
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This commode of architectural form reflects the George III taste for the neo-classical Roman style. The unusual form bares many of the hallmarks of the late 18^th century firm of Mayhew and Ince. The high quality tropical hardwood veneers, the use of ebonised borders and the fine marquetry paterae are all demonstrative of their output. The severe geometric form is a recurrent theme in some of the firm’s most notable commissions. The 6^th Earl of Coventry at Croome Court and the 9^th Earl of Exeter at Burghley both had similar pieces in their collections supplied by Mayhew and Ince. Percy Macquoid illustrates a commode of similar form with profuse marquetry in P Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, ed. 1988, London, p. 370, fig. 835.  A similar pair of commodes attributed to Mayhew and Ince was sold, A collection from a New York Townhouse, Christie’s, New York, 15 April 2005, lot 251.