This model of breakfront commode, first evolved in the Oeben workshop 1760-62, was especially favoured by Gilles Joubert ébéniste du Roi, and in the last decade of his career (1765-1775) he supplied many Royal commodes, which he subcontracted to ébénistes such as RVLC, Boudin and Cramer (H. Roberts, 'Gilles Joubert as Subcontractor', Furniture History Society Journal, 1985, pp. 32-35, figs. 4-7). A number of them have the same distinctive Mercury mask plaque - for example the pair of commodes by RVLC for the salon de compagnie of Madamoiselle du Barry at Versailles in 1772 and the pair by M. -G. Cramer for the chambre à coucher of the comte de Provence at Fontainebleau, op.cit., figs. 5 and 7)

A similarly mounted Transitional commode by RVLC in the Musée Nissim de Camondo (Catalogue, pp. 73 and 74, no. 339) also bears the false stamp of Leleu