A GEORGE III FIGURED MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770 The panel doors incorporating false drawer fronts and opening to a fitted interior incorporating two small and two sliding trays, bearing label for the Irwin Untermyer Collection83.5cm high, 115cm wide, 60cm deep Provenance:Purchased Christie's, Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27th October 2015, Lot 54.Colonel H. H. Mulliner (d. 1924), Clifton Court, Rugby, Warwickshire.Robert J. Dunham, Chicago; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 May 1947, lot 381.Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1955.Literature:H. Comstock, 'English Furniture: European Decorative Art at the Metropolitan Museum', Magazine Antiques, May 1955, p. 401, fig. 8.Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 282, fig. 324.A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 10.F. L. Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 236, fig. 426.F. L. Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, New York, 1988, p. 124, pl. 90, fig. 193.Colonel Mulliner was a well-known collector in the early 20th century and owner of the coachbuilders Mulliner Park Ward, creators of some of the greatest Rolls Royce cars. He published The Decorative Arts in England, 1923.A very similar commode was at Chesterfield House, London, the former home of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood, K.G.