The ribbon-banded commode, embellished with an exotic golden medallion of amaranth, is serpentined or scrolled in the elegant French style introduced about 1770 by cabinet-makers such as John Cobb (d.1778) of St. Martin's Lane and later popularised by Messrs. A. Hepplewhite and Co's., Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. Its fashionable green veneer of richly-striated harewood would have harmonised with the silk upholstery of the period. The paning of the latter also relates to that of a marquetry commode supplied in the later 1770's to Bretby Park, Derbyshire and attributed to Mayhew and Ince, cabinet-makers of Golden Square and authors of the Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no.23).