The commode's bow-fronted top, with canted convex corners and Etruscan-blacking or ebonising to the moulded edge, is inlaid after the George III 'antique' style of the 1770s with a beribboned medallion of golden satinwood on a cross-veneered mahogany ground. Its frame, serpentined and with a richly fretted apron in the French manner, has ormolu acanthus-scrolled feet terminating its moulded angles; while its drawers, inlaid en suite with the top with beribboned and hollow-cornered tablets, are furnished with handles looped from medallioned-escutcheons. Its 'French commode' pattern was later popularised by Messrs. Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, but this commode is likely to have been manufactured in the mid 1770s by John Cobb (d.1778) of St. Martin's Lane, cabinet maker to King George III. Related satinwood medallions feature on a pair of commodes with the same 'sabot' mounts attributed to Cobb (see Sotheby's, 25 January 1974, lot 76), and related Cobb commodes are discussed by L. Wood, 'Furniture for Lord Delaval', Furniture History, 1990. pp. 198-234