The closest parallel to this striking commode en tombeau, with its high-hipped angles and triumphal-arched sides and front, richly embellished with boldly scrolling foliate and rocaille bronzes, is a commode attributed to André-Charles Boulle in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, A Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 23, fig. 21). The foliate bronzes to the feet of the commode offered here also feature on a bureau plat with cartonnier attributed to Boulle, supplied to the Château de Bercy and also veneered in amaranth, sold Christie's Monaco, 15 December 1996, lot 136. However as none of the other bronzes on this commode are known Boulle models, it is likely to have been made by another accomplished ébéniste working in this idiom, such as Etienne Doirat (see for instance a commode en tombeau of more exaggerated form by Doirat in the Getty, illustrated in Bremer-David op. cit., p. 24, fig. 22.)

The en tombeau form, whose origins lie in Italian Renaissance models for cassoni and sarcophagi, is perhaps inspired by the celebrated commode attributed to Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt (c.1639-1715), after designs by Jean Bérain, in the Wallace Collection, London (illustrated in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. II, pp. 632-8, cat. 136).