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3atterns for related French-fashioned 'commode chest of drawers' with serpentined fronts and bracket feet featured in William Ince and John Mayhews' The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (pl XLIII). A related chest, bearing the 1760s label of Philip Bell, is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds 1996.