A pair of Central Italian blue and polychrome painted chinoiserie commodes, probably Marche, with the collection label of S.A.R. Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 18th-19th century.  Photo Sotheby's

each with a shaped top above two drawers decorated with trails of flowers, the sides decorated with an oriental figure in a landscape, on cabriole legs terminating in hoof feet, one with the printed collection label on the reverse` Collezione d'Arte di S.A.R. Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, Duca d'Aosta'; tops redecorated, some retouching to lacquer; each 83.5cm. high, 132cm. wide, 42cm. deep; 2ft. 8¾in., 4ft. 4in., 1ft. 4½in. Estimate 25,000-40,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia Carignano (d. 1931) was Duke of Apulia and then of Aosta. He was married to Helen of Orléans and the father of Amadeo (d. 1942), Viceroy of Ethiopia from 1937 to 1940.
Sold  Sotheby's Milan, 4th October 2000, Collection of Villa Lontana Rome, lot 506.

NOTE: A very similar commode was sold from the Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, Vol. I, in these Rooms, 10th-12th March 1999, lot 117 (£36,000)

Sotheby's. Arts of Europe. London | 10 juil. 2013, 02:00 PM - www.sothebys.com