The commode was universally used in the bedrooms and boudoirs. It generally stood opposite the mantel-piece. It is now a superb piece of furniture, being, as a rule, richly decorated with gilt bronze _or moulu_ and often painted and lacquered in the Chinese taste,—in _Vernis Martin_. It was the famous Cressent who made the Commode _à la Régence_, _à la Chartres_, _à la Bagnolet_, _à la Charolais_, _à la Harant_ and _à la Dauphine_ fashionable. One of Cressent’s commodes, sold in 1761, was thus described by himself: “A commode of a pleasing contour, made of violet-wood, having four drawers and ornamented with bronze gilt, _or moulu_. This commode is a work (with regard to the bronzes) of an extraordinary richness; they are very well executed and the distribution of them very fine; among other things, you notice the bust of a Spanish woman placed between the four drawers; two dragons, whose tails turned up in relief form the handles for the two upper drawers, and the stems of two great leaves of a beautiful form are also turned up in relief to make handles for the two lower ones: you must admit that this commode is a veritable curiosity.” Another of Cressent’s commodes owned by the Baron Rothschild in London “is of a most elegant form upon which the bronzes of an extraordinary richness represent, on the front, two children swinging a monkey.” Jean Jacques Caffieri also made superb commodes. One of his, ornamented with superb bronzes in the _rocaille_ style, is in the Wallace Collection which also owns a commode by Cressent. Sometimes the commode was ornamented with panels of rosewood, or violet-wood, or some other exotic product, framed in spiky bronze work, or again, it was of lacquer, the designs being flowers, leaves, Chinese pagodas and landscapes.