A ROMAN BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED SERPENTINE COMMODE with moulded brêche violette serpentine marble top above two drawers with waved fronts profusely decorated with courtly figures drinking tea, fishing, conversing and harvesting, in landscapes with pagodas beyond and within scrolling foliate borders, the panelled sides decorated with birds and flowers, on tapering cabriole legs and hoof feet, mid-18th Century, with printed depository label R. P. OVER & SONS LTD DEPOSITORY NAME M. C. VAN. DER.ZEE DATE 23.1.64/NO.194/CAMBERLEY SURREY, the decoration 19th Century with traces of the original blue and red underpainting