This elliptical form of chest-of-drawers with 'commode' corners features in the 1788 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 121). A three-drawered and stump-footed commode of this form was included in the furnishings supplied in the 1780s by Gillows, at the time that the architect James Wyatt was carrying out improvements for Sir Gerard Vanneck (d. 1791) at Heveningham Hall, Suffolk (sold by The Austrailian Trustees of the Heveningham Hall Settlement, Sotheby's London, 10 July 1970, lot 108).