The dressing-commode is inlaid with an oval medallion in the George III 'Roman' manner, such as Thomas Malton featured in his Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1778 (pl. XXXIV). It also appears on a satinwood dressing-chest, whose silver equipment is hall-marked for 1780 (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 164; Victoria and Albert Museum inv. no. W. 29-1939). A pattern for related 'medallion pattera' handles is illustrated on a dressing chest published in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 3rd ed., 1802, (pl. XV).