The top's trompe-l'oeil vignette of a plinth-supported flower-vase accompanied by birds and insects, is designed in the Louis XIV antique manner, and relates to engravings of the work of the artist Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (d.1699) and, perhaps most closely, to that of Gabriel Androuet Du Cerceau. A closely related floral composition by Du Cearceau, who was granted the post of Dessinateur to Louis XIV circa 1690, is illustrated in P. Fuhring, 'Late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century furnituren designs for upholstered furniture', Furniture History Society Journal, Leeds 1989, pp. 42-60, fig. 6. . This was later popularised by Daniel Marot's, Nouveaux Livres de Tableaux de portes et cheminee, circa 1700. Its arabesque frame, with a feather-plumed satyr-mask in flowered and ribbon-tied acanthus-scrolls, is echoed on the drawer fronts and relates to ornament in the Roman manner, engraved in Jean Le Pautre's, Frisses Feuillages et Ornements, 1657. The most celebrated exponent of this fashion of ebony-inlaid furniture is André-Charles Boulle (d.1732), Louis XIV's Ebèniste, whose designs for this form of commode featured in J. Mariette's, Nouveaux Desseins de meubles, 1703-30. A related commode was sold in these Rooms, 10 June 1993, lot 90.