The distinctive marquetry of flowers and birds highlighted with ivory, places these commodes firmly in a group of case furniture of circa 1690 several of which have been attributed to André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732). These examples include a bureau plat in the collection of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat, one formerly in the collection of Jacques Helft (illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de 1680 a la Revolution, 1989, p. 94, fig. 50), one sold Sotheby's Monaco, 4 March 1989, lot 274 and one sold Christie's London, 23 June 1988, lot 108. A related commode with similar inlay and bronze mounts to the offered lot was exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, May-October 1960 No. 90, pl. XXXVI and another of a slightly different form but with closely related inlay and mounts is illustrated in M.Burckhardt, Mobilier Louis XIII Louis XIV, n.d., p. 76. Another commode of slightly different form but very closely related inlay and mounts and dated to circa 1700 is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Meuble Français et Européen du Moyen Age à Nos Jours, p. 92, fig. 80.