This remarkable dressing-table commode is embellished with 'picturesque' brass mounts in the French manner. The highly distinctive festoon and lambrequin handles also feature on a dressing-room commode supplied to Stanwick, Yorkshire, and now at Alnwick (R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. II, p. 111, fig. 2). The latter commode was commissioned by Sir Hugh Smythson, later Duke of Northumberland, and it was noted in a letter of 1739 as being 'A French set of Drawers much ornamented with Brass gilt'. The Stanwick commode is richly-carved in mahogany and relates to the work of Benjamin Goodison (d.1767), cabinet-maker of Long Acre, who supplied furniture to King George II. The King's Great Wardrobe was directed by another Yorkshire gentleman, Sir Thomas Robinson. It is possible that this commode was also supplied by Goodison.