A diminutive Danish Rococo parcel gilt walnut bombe commodein the manner of Matthias Orttmannmid 18th centurySurmounted by a later veined white marble top. height 30 1/2in (77.5cm); width 25 3/4in (65.5cm); depth 18in (45.5cm)Provenance: sold Christies London, 11 May 2000, lot 87.with Therien & Co., San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.Property from the Estate Francis A. Martin III, San Francisco, California, curated by Steven Volpe.Footnote: Matthias Orttmann operated a successful cabinet making firm in Copenhagen between 1733 and 1757. A related commode, bearing Orttmanns workshop stamp, is in the Kunstindustrimuseet in Copenhagen and is illustrated in H. Kreisel G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen M?bels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, fig. 853. A pair of related commodes of similar design was part of the collection of the Prinsens Palae, the residence of Statsminister Ove Hoegh Guldberg, and appear in a painting by Wilhelm Haffner (1782). (T. Clemmensen, Danske interiortegninger fra rococo til klunketid, Copenhagen, 1951, p. 20). A similar example was sold Christies London, 19 May 1994, lot 164.