A number of commodes are known which show strong similarities to this commode. These include a group of four two-drawer commodes of very similar form, of which three have almost identical boulle marquetry decoration, and with very similar mounts. One, in palisander, which was sold from the collection of Mme. Camoin, Drouot, Paris, 2 April 1987, lot 133, is stamped N.G. for the ébéniste Noël Gérard, active 1710-36, which forms the basis for the attribution of this group to this maker. The other examples include one sold from the Koutschoubey Collection, Drouot, Paris, 13-16 June 1906, lot 382, one sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 June 1983, lot 290 and another in the collection of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat House, Wiltshire. Very similar boulle marquetry decoration also appears on another group of three drawer commodes, including one with the same scene on the top but in reverse, offered anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 50. Another, from the collection of the duchesse de Talleyrand, was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 14-15 June, 1981, lot 149. A further example in the Keck collection was sold Sotheby's New York, 6 December 1991, lot 245.
A very similar pair of commodes in the collection of the Earl of Harrowby, Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, are illustrated 'Sandon Hall, Staffordshire', Country Life, 13 June 1991, p. 180.
It is interesting to note that very similar mounts to those on the angles of this commode are described in the Inventory after the death of André-Charles Boulle in 1732, as follows:
No 50. Une boeste de modeles de grands feuillages, masques de fauve, mufles de lion et autres ornemens cizeles pour des commodes pezans ensemble trente-cinq livres-et demy, prises a raison de trente-cinq sols la livre.
and
No 51. Une boeste de modeles de masques et mufles de lions et supports anciens cizeles pesant unze livres prises a raison de vingt-quatre sols la livre..
(J. P. Samoyault, André-Charles Boulle et sa Famille, Paris, 1979, p. 142)