A Maltese marquetry commode, the top inlaid a shaped cartouche with stag and hound in foliage within scrolling boxwood lines and border of seaweed marquetry panels above a frieze drawer and three long drawers similarly inlaid and strung, the sides inlaid scrollwork and marquetry panels with putti, raised on ebonised bun feet, 159cm wide, 107cm high/Provenance: This commode was originally one of a pair owned by William Parnis, an eminent Maltese lawyer. Parnis had two sons; the eldest Edgar (1857-1913) left significant bequests to the National Library of Malta and to the Valletta Museum. The commodes were inherited by the younger son Alfred (1860-1946) and passed by descent to the current owner/