The commode's bow-shaped and Etruscan-black bordered top is elegantly inlaid with a poetic 'Apollo' trophy of wreathed-laurels on a golden ground of satinwood. This is banded by a micro-mosaic ribbon that ties Roman-foliage and Grecian-palmettes to its spandrels. The pier-table frieze-drawer is concealed by a waved ribbon-band of acanthus-tipped Vitruvian scrolls, while Venus' scallop-shell badge holds laurel-festoons to the canted angles. The doors display delicate bouquets of ribbon-tied flowers within architecturally-eared tablets, whose ribbon-twist border forms are Grecian-fretted at the corners and wreathed by laurel-branches. On the evidence of quality and stylistic analogy, the commode can confidently be attributed to Messrs. Ince & Mayhew, cabinet-makers and upholsterers, who publicised their establishment in Golden Square, by the dedication of their pattern-book, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, to the 4th Duke of Marlborough, who was Groom of King George III's Bedchamber. Amongst their related furniture is a pair of 'Very fine Sattinwood and Holly Commodes, neatly grav'd and inlaid with flowers of Rosewood', which they supplied in 1765 for Croome Court, Worcestershire (see: A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, pl. 119). However, the closest parallel is a commode at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, which was amongst the furniture commissioned by William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811; see: P. Macquoid, History of English Furniture, London, 1908, vol. IV, fig. 29)