The marble-slab commode is incorporated in a 'pier-table' frame designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion with festive ribbon-fretted frieze and serpentined truss pilasters wrapped by Roman acanthus foliage and terminating in flowered-tablet plinths. Its fret pattern featured in 'Decorations for Cabinet-works', issued in Batty Langley's, The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, London, 1740. (pl. XCVIII) . It was adopted for the design of a pair of marble-slab sideboard-tables supplied in the 1740s for Langley Park, Norfolk under the direction of the architect Matthew Brettingham (d. 1769) and sold by Sir Christopher Proctor-Beauchamp, Bt., in these Rooms, 6 July 1995, lot 100.

The distinctive flowered-tablet terminal of the legs is also found on the group of writing-tables and commodes traditionally associated with both William Vile and Benjamin Goodison, such as the pair at Goodwood House, Sussex, as well as those now in the Victoria and Albert Museum from Ashburnham Place, Sussex and St. Giles's House, Dorset (illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, figs. 3,7 and 9).