Demilune commodes enjoyed particular popularity in Piedmont during the Neoclassical era and were decorated with a variety of techniques including carving, lacquering, veneering in exotic and domestic timbers, as well as inlaying with intricate parquetry and marquetry, see E. Quaglino, Il Mobile Piemontese, Milan, 1966, pp. 155-156 and R. Antonetto, Il Mobile Piemontese nel Settecento, vol. II, Turin, 2010, pp. 61-63. The overall proportions and shape of this commode are remarkably close to a polychrome-decorated commode-desserte formerly in the Accorsi Collection, featuring similar fluted pilasters and legs (see ibid. p. 63, fig. 45). The delicately carved oak-leaf wreaths decorating the large drawers of the present commode recall the oeuvres of some of the greatest Piedmontese furniture-making intagliatori, such as Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo and Francesco Bolgiè. The fluting to the frieze drawer and sides is particularly distinctive and is comparable to that found on a parcel-gilt and painted commode attributed to Bonzanigo (see ibid. vol. I, p. 363, fig. 19). For a pair of parcel-gilt and ivory-decorated demilune commodes featuring large drawers, carved with very similar roundels comprised of laurel leaves and attributed to the circle of Bonzanigo, see Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2009, lot 20.