The reeded bandings and Etruscan black ribbon-bands relate to patterns for commodes and chests-of-drawers in the French 'antique' manner published by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book of 1793. However, the various elemnts had already featured on commodes manufactured in the 1780s and attributed to the firm of Mayhew and Ince of Golden Square whose partnership flourished from 1758/9 until 1804 (see: H. Roberts, 'The Derby House Commode', Burlington Magazine, May 1985, pp. 275-283, figs. 20 and 21)