This 'commode a bambocci' is based on models that appeared in Liguria and Genova in the early 17th Century and which nearly always consist of three long drawers surmounted by two short drawers centred by a small drawer carved with an armorial. A related commode is in the collection of N. Longari, Milan (S. Colombo, L'Arte del Mobile in Italia, Milan, 1975, fig. 108), whilst a further commode, originally from the Spinola family, is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genova, 1996, p. 48, fig. 50.