This serpentined and trellised bureau-cabinet is designed in the Louis XV 'picturesque' manner, with Roman acanthus embellishing the cartouche of its vase-plinthed cornice, engraved on its mirrored doors and accompanying poetic-laurel in its ormolu enrichments. Its elegant French style reflects the fashion introduced to The Hague in the 1760s by ébénistes such as Matthijs Horrix (d.1809), who, following his move from Germany, was patronised by the Stadholder Prince William V (see: R.J. Baarsen, 'In de commode van Parijs tot Den Haag', Oud Holland 107, 1993, pp. 161-255). The fanciful ormolu mounts, however, are likely to have been provided from England