The commode's elegantly serpentined form relates to that of the commode supplied in 1772 for Corsham Court, Wiltshire by the court cabinet-maker, John Cobb (d. 1778). A bold effect is created by its parquetry of beribboned tablets and medallions after the George III 'Roman' fashion of the late 1770, that Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co. illustrated a decade later in their Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. The medallions, featured on the top and sides, are echoed by the drawers' fine flame-figured mahogany being unfolded from the centres. Its beribboned ornament, combined with handsome patteraed handles, relates to that of a bedroom Pembroke table that was supplied by John Linnell to accompany a bed that was designed by Robert Adam in 1779 for Osterley Park, Middlesex (H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, fig. 305).