This form of serpentine-fronted and cut-cornered commode, with triple nests of drawers, relates to the fashionable George II 'French Commode Table' patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Directors published between 1754 and 1762. This commode, with its serpentined bracket feet and antique-fluted corners relates to a popular group of mid-18th century Dublin manufactured commode-based bookcases, such as the Ionic-pilastered and pedimented cabinet at Leixlip Castle, Co. Kildare illustrated in A. Coleridge and D. Fitz-Gerald, 'Eighteenth Century Irish Furniture', Apollo, October, 1966, fig 17.