These marble-topped and mirror-backed corner display 'commode' cabinets, with palmette-enriched capitals and tablet, are designed in the early 19th century French 'Grecian' manner. They were commissioned by George Finch, 4th Earl of Nottingham and 9th Earl of Winchilsea (d. 1826), Groom of the Stole to King George III, and formed part of his refurnishing of Burley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire, carried out under the direction of the architect Jeffrey Wyatt, later Sir Jeffrey Wyatville (d. 1840). Their decoration reflects the style of Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine's Receuil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1801, as promoted by the connoisseur Thomas Hope's house museum in Duchess Street. It relates in particular to that of Hope's vase stand, dating from around 1800 and illustrated in plate 21 of his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. At this time, the architect Charles Tatham was promoting the decoration of Carlton House in this 'antique' style for George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV, and it was his brother, the cabinet-maker Thomas Tatham (d. 1842), of Messrs. Elward, Marsh and Tatham, who was involved with the refurnishing of Burley. A huge payment of #901 5s to this firm, recorded on 16 February 1802, is likely to have included these cabinets as well as the bookcases (The Earl of Winchilsea, Hoare's Bank). The cabinets, described as '2 Rosewood angular commodes', are listed in the Drawing Room together with a collection of display china in an 1826 inventory drawn up by Messrs. Banting & France of Pall Mall (manuscripts in Leicestershire Record Office)