The serpentined commode hung with medals and flower-festooned medaillons of a bacchante and youth on a Bacchic panther and goat, derives from the celebrated commode designed for Louis XV's apartment at Versailles by Antoine-Sebastian Slodtz and manufactured by Antoine Gaudreaux in 1739.
Another example of this model was sold in these rooms, 19 October 1995, lot 257.