Each commode fitted with nine drawers and supported on four scroll-shaped legs resting on pad feet, the mahogany tops carved on the front and side edges with egg and scroll moldings; drawer fronts carved with twisted rope moldings; the bombé front corners of each commode carved with elongated cartouches and scrolls and the aprons carved with shell work motifs
33 in. (83.8 cm.) high, 56¹⁄₂. in. (143.5 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

The Rt. Hon. Earl Poulett.
Possibly the Collection of Richard A. Cranfield by 1906.
With R.W. Partridge, London.
The Collection of Marsden J. Perry; sold, Anderson Galleries, New York, 3-4 April 1936, lots 254 and 255.
Acquired from the above sale by Clarence Dillon, New York.
Bequeathed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Clarence Dillon in 1979.

P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Mahogany, Vol. III, London & New York, 1906, fig. 134 (possibly one of the commodes, or an identical commode).
L.V. Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., Vols. 1 & 2, New York, p. 16, fig. 2 (possibly one of the present commodes, or an identical commode).

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