A very fine mid 18th-century ormolu-mounted Chinese black lacquer and japanned serpentine commode, decorated overall with exotic birds within an oriental landscape with flowers and butterflies, the shaped top with gadrooned ormolu band above two doors enclosing three similarly decorated lacquer drawers with gild metal handles, the keeled angles headed by pierced foliate and floral mounts, on splayed legs with pierced foliate sabots with a shaped apron. 
The closest comparison to this beautiful commode is a pair formerly in the collection of the HRH The Duke of Kent. The pair are of a similar, low-slung form, with Chinese lacquer panels and ormolu mounts, and with stylistically similar japanned areas. Other related commodes include one from the collection of Lady Agnes Peel; a commode formerly at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, and another from the collection of Mrs A. Shannon-Munn.