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HuffPost Entertainment is your one-stop shop for celebrity news, hilarious late-night bits, industry and awards coverage and more — sent right to your inbox six days a week.Browse below for a listing of our French antique commode, english chest, country french commode, painted commode, white chest of drawers and Chest of Drawers and Hall or Bedroom Chest Furniture Click on any thumbnail image to see a larger photo. If you can not find what you are looking for pleaseLegs EnamelEnamel LidPotty CommodeCommode ChairVictorian BedroomVictorian FurnitureLate VictorianFurniture MahoganyMahogany WoodForwardBeautiful piece of functional late victorian furniture. Mahogany Wood Chamber Pot, Potty, Commode Chair on turned legs Enamel pot with decorative enamel lid Novel ice/beer/wine bucket Ideal as a planter or bedside table (with storage) Budget ensuite, caravan!VTG Wooden Toilet Potty Training Chair with paper holder and book rack - no potBrowse through Online Galleries’ large collection of antique commodes for sale from reputable dealers.
We showcase a vast amount of stock, including bedside commodes and French commodes. Purchase a high quality antique commode, coming in a variety of builds, including mahogany, satinwood and marble. Price: High - Low Price: Low - High PAIR OF 1960's SCANDINAVIAN MODERN TEAK CHEST OF DRAWERS Pair of late 19th Century Kingwood and Marquetry Petit Commodes George III Period Mahogany Chest of Drawers 19TH CENTURY BIRCH CHEST OF DRAWERS A Rare George III Period Mahogany Bestiary Chest Mid C18 Oak Chest Late 18th Century Marquetry Demilune Commode Late 19th Century Kingwood Bombe Commode A Fine 19Th Century Burr Walnut Empire Commode Mid 19th Century Cast Iron Chest Late Georgian Period Mahogany Chest Louis XV Bombe Kingwood Commode George III Period Mahogany Chest Incorporating a Slide Early 18th Century Figured Oak Kist Early 19th Century Rosewood and Marquetry Commode Pair of Antique French Marble Top Bombe Chests
William and Mary Walnut Chest George III Mahogany Commode George II Period Burr Walnut Chest-on-Chest 19th Century Night Cupboard Mid 18th Century Walnut Chest of Drawers 19th C. Mahogany Pedestal Chest of Drawers A Pair of Serpentine Iberian Commodes DANISH 1960's TEAK CHEST OF DRAWERS Sheraton Lancaster Mahogany Side Cabinet of Serpentine Form. DANISH 1960's TEAK TALL CHEST OF DRAWERS 18th Century Secretaire Chest on Chest Mid 19th Century Kingwood Marquetry Bombe Commode George III Mahogany Chest of Drawers George III Period Oak Chest on Chest A fine Sheraton period demi-lune Commode. Antique Swedish Kingwood & Rosewood Marble Top Commode Chippendale Period Mahogany Secretaire Chest FINE QUALITY 19TH CENTURY BIRCH TALLBOY CHEST OF DRAWERS George III mahogany tray top commode Regency Period Mahogany Chest of Drawers Regency Period Rosewood Chiffonier Early 20th Century Burr Maple and Kingwood Commode
Shop unique and handmade items directly from creative people around the world Popular items for commode Commode, veneered with Japanese lacquer and japanned, by Bernard II van Risenburgh, Paris, c. 1750-60 Victoria and Albert Museum[1] A Neoclassical Parisian marquetry commode of mid-1770s, showing vestiges of the Rococo in the stiffened cabriole legs and softened transitions between planes (Walters Art Museum) A commode is any of several pieces of furniture. The word commode comes from the French word for "convenient" or "suitable", which in turn comes from the Latin adjective commodus, with similar meanings. The term originates in the vocabulary of French furniture from about 1700. At that time, a commode meant a cabinet or chest of drawers, low enough so that it sat at the height of the dado rail (à hauteur d'appui). It was a piece of veneered case furniture much wider than it was high, raised on high or low legs[2] and with (commode à vantaux) or without enclosing drawers.
Commodes were made by ébénistes; the French word for "cabinet-maker" is derived from ebony, a black tropical hardwood notable as a foreign luxury. The beautiful wood was complemented with ormolu (gilt-bronze drawer pulls). The piece of furniture would be provided with a marble slab top[3] selected to match the marble of the chimneypiece. A commode occupied a prominent position in the room for which it was intended: it stood against the pier between the windows,[4] in which case it would often be surmounted by a mirror glass,[5] or a pair of identical commodes would flank the chimneypiece or occupy the center of each end wall. Bombé commodes, with surfaces shaped in three dimensions, were a feature of the rococo style called "Louis Quinze". Rectilinear neoclassical, or "Louis Seize", commodes might have such deep drawers or doors that the feet were en toupie—in the tapering turned shape of a child's spinning top. Both rococo and neoclassical commodes might have cabinets flanking the main section, in which case such a piece was a commode à encoignures;
[6] pairs of encoignures or corner-cabinets might also be designed to complement a commode and stand in the flanking corners of a room. If a commode had open shelves flanking the main section it was a commode à l'anglaise. Before the mid-eighteenth century the commode had become such a necessary article of furniture that it might be made in menuiserie (carpentry), of solid painted oak, walnut or fruitwoods, with carved decoration, typical of French provincial furniture. A washstand with pitcher (jug) and towel rack, sometimes known as a commode. In the English-speaking world, commode passed into cabinet-makers' parlance in London by the mid-eighteenth century, to describe chests of drawers with gracefully curved fronts, and sometimes with shaped sides as well, perceived as being in the "French" taste. Thomas Chippendale employed the term "French Commode Tables" to describe designs in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Director (1753), and Ince and Mayhew illustrated a "Commode Chest of drawers", plate xliii, in their Universal System of Household Furniture, 1759–62.
John Gloag notes[7] that Commode expanded to describe any piece of furniture with a serpentine front, such as a dressing table, or even a chair seat.[8] Gloag points out that Thomas Shearer's designs for two "commode dressing chests" illustrated in The Cabinet-Makers' London Book of Prices, 1788, plate 17, are repeated, but as "serpentine dressing chests", in The Prices of Cabinet Work, 1797 edition. The Oxford English Dictionary has multiple meanings of "commode". The first relevant definition reads: "A piece of furniture with drawers and shelves; in the bedroom, a sort of elaborate chest of drawers (so in French); in the drawingroom, a large (and gen.[erally] old-fashioned) kind of chiffonier." The drawing room is itself an old-fashioned term for a formal reception room, and a chiffonier is, in this sense, a small sideboard dating from the early 19th century. Another meaning attested is a washstand, a piece of furniture equipped with basin, jug, and towel rail, and often with space to store the chamber pot behind closed doors.
A washstand in the bedroom pre-dates indoor bathrooms and running water. Museum collection of toilets, bed pans, hip baths, etc. The modern toilet commode is on the right 19th century heavy wooden toilet commode In British English, "commode" is the standard term for a chair, often on wheels, enclosing a chamber pot—as used in hospitals and the homes of invalids.[9] (The historic equivalent is the close stool, hence the coveted and prestigious position Groom of the Stool for a courtier close to the monarch.) This piece of furniture is termed in French a chaise percée ("pierced chair"); similar items were made specifically as moveable bidets for washing. In some parts of the United States, a "commode" is a colloquial synonym for a flush toilet. ^ A commode with a divided drawer above two deep ones was a commode en tombeau— a "monumental commode"— or, in retrospect, a commode à la Régence. ^ The slab might be veneered with a fine or rare marble, such as a breccia;
its edges might be moulded. ^ Such a piece, when made particularly shallow, not to impede passage along the enfilade that connected rooms might be called a demi-commode (Francis J. B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture 1973, fig.fig. 27). ^ commodeFrench Furniture and Interior Decoration of the 18th Century ^ Francis J. B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture 1973, illustrates as commodes à encoignures the commode by Gilles Joubert and Roger Vandercruse La Croix, 1769 for Mme Victoire at Compiègne (fig. 23 (Frick Collection, New York); the commode by Joubert for Mme Adelaide at Versailles, 1769 (fig. 24, Getty Museum, Los Angeles); the unusually rich and monumental commode by Jean-Henri Riesener for the king's bedroom at Versailles, 1775 (fig. 32, Musée Condé, Chantilly). ^ A Short Dictionary of Furnitures.v. ^ Richard Magrath, a cabinet-maker and upholsterer in Charleston, South Carolina, advertised for sale in 1771 ""Half a Dozen Caned Chairs, a Couch to match them, with commode fronts, and Pincushion seats."