Commode

attributed to William Vile (1700 - 1767)

V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

1760

In his lifetime many magnificent pieces of furniture were presented by the late Brigadier W,E. Clark CMG, DSO, to the Victoria and Albert Museum through the Art Fund. After his death, a trust was set up in 1976 so that his estate could be used by the V&A to add to its collection of English seventeenth. and eighteenth-century furniture and cIocks. Again, Brigadier Clark wished this bequest to be through the Art Fund, though the fund is administered by the V&A.

• Medium: mahogany with ormolu mounts
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Bequeathed by Brigadier Clark Fund through The Art Fund

Provenance

Believed to have been made for George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763-65.

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