The marble-topped and bronze-enriched bookcase/commode of black-figured rosewood is designed in the early 19th century French/antique manner. The doors are paned with golden lozenged trellis and flowered bas reliefs in the spandrels; while reeded and acanthus-wrapped pillars are sunk in the commode's corners. A 'bookcase', with some similar features was supplied in 1806 for Lady Bradford's Drawing Room at Weston Park, Staffordshire by the Mount Street firm of Morel and Hughes (P. Rogers, 'A Regency Interior: The Remodelling of Weston Park', Furniture History, 1987 p. 34 fig 10). The same pillars featured on a related bookcase illustrated in the 1997 catalogue of Florian Papp of New York.