The strongly geometric form of this cylinder bureau combined with the striking use of bold inlaid motifs such as the central sunburst paterae to the cylinder fall and the drawer and the Greek key frets is in the neoclassical tradition introduced by Georg Haupt (1741-1784, master in 1770) and other Swedish cabinetmakers in the 1770's and 1780's. Haupt had worked for Simon Oeben in Paris and John Linnell in London and was also influenced by the strongly neoclassic lines of George III's Swedish born architect Sir William Chambers. Two commodes with similar Greek key borders but of slightly more sophisticated overall design are illustrated in S. Wallin, Mobler fran Svenska Herremanshem, vol. II, p. 80-81, figs. 488-490.