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Furniture > Case furniture > Commodes

Preferred term

Commodes

Definition(s)

Chests of drawers or cabinets of chair-rail height, made for display as well as storage and often quite elaborately decorated; applied especially to French forms, and to other styles to indicate a form inspired by French taste [AAT, alt.]

Broader concept(s)

Case furniture

Narrower concept(s)

Commodes en tombeau

Synonym(s)

Bureaus, commodes
Cabinets, commodes
Chests, commodes
Chests of drawers, commodes
Dressers, commodes

Notation

110844

In other languages

Commode

French

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-S7CDZPN0-N

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