Two commodes are represented on Plate XXXV. The lower one is made of violet-wood with ornaments of chiselled copper, Nos. 2a and 2b show the handles and the end of another by Pinaud. This dates from 1750. The decorative details are of gilt copper and show the mascaron and gracefully twining leaves. The handles and key-plates are hidden by the ornaments. The key-plates of the two drawers are different, as will be noted. On the upper one, a woman’s head is represented, while the lower one has a fine shell. The third ornament below these is a shell with the favourite device of dripping water. A commode dressing-table appears as No. 12 on Plate XXXVI. The foot of a chest-of-drawers with beautiful ornamentation of chased and gilded copper, is on the same plate, No. 11. At this date the _Cabinet de toilette_ is often called the _Cabinet à la Poudre_, the name not needing a definition when we recall the numerous pictures and caricatures of the fashionable lady seated before her glass, with her _coiffeur_, or _femme de chambre_, mounted on a stool, or ladder, busy working on the towering headdress. The toilet table was a commode or a simple table spread with linen, silk, or lace over silk, and above which was hung a glass. Frequently lace, muslin, chintz, or silk, was looped over the table and caught back by knots of ribbon, artificial flowers, or gilded figures of Cupids, or dolphins, or some favourite device of the day. The small _chiffonnier_ with drawers, made of marquetry, or _Vernis Martin_, and ornamented with gilt bronze _or moulu_ mounts, dates from this period. The _armoire_ is still in use. In 1760, we hear of the lower part of a large _armoire_ in the form of a bookcase, of violet-wood veneered in mosaics. It was 7½ feet long, 4 feet high, and 26 inches deep. The interior was divided into three compartments and a long shelf covered with crimson watered silk. In front were three doors, the middle one of which was enriched with a large medallion, bronze gilt _or moulu_, representing Minerva holding in her right hand a compass with which she is measuring a globe, on a background of lapis lazuli painted. The other doors were decorated with trophies in bronze gilt _or moulu_ representing mathematical instruments. On the ends were cartouches of bronze gilt _or moulu_ of various Chinese plants. The bookcase was ornamented with hasps and mouldings also of bronze gilt _or moulu_ and stood on six feet, the four front ones being square and the two in the back round. The form is still in use. In 1750, the archives of Versailles mention: “seven _formes de moquette_ with coloured flowers on a white background, 5 or 6 feet long, and from 2 to 4 feet, by 18 inches high, and 15 inches wide, nailed with gilded nails, to serve the Queen at the _grand couvert_.”