A Dutch tulipwood, walnut, marquetry and japanned commode late 18th century

the black japanned and sycamore banded oblong top with canted front corners, above a chequerbanded oblong edge, the three doors with japanned panels suspended by ribbons, the canted corners and sides inset with japanned panels, on angled square tapering legs 

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Reinier Baarsen, Dutch Furniture 1600-1800,  p.128, no.61 (Inv.  R.B.K. 1967-176).

In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, there is a cabinet inlaid with ribbon-tied lacquer roundels with panels of Dutch chinoiserie lacquered scenes conceived in a similar vein to those upon this commode. Since around 1700, furniture inlaid with lacquer panels had been made in the Netherlands but this fell out of favour in the rococo period, unlike in France where the craftsmen had mastered the difficult technique of bending the lacquer to apply it to bombé commodes. When the influence of neo-classicism took hold in the late 1780s, lacquer was again applied to furniture in the Netherlands.

Princess Wilhemina was supplied by the Hague cabinet-maker Matthijs Horrix in 1780, with several commodes inlaid with oriental lacquer provided by the princess. Horrix became a specialist in this field which was practised by other Netherlandish makers.The panels on the cabinet in the Rijksmuseum and on the offered commode  are not true Japanese or Chinese lacquer but Dutch imitations. Baarsen states op. cit, that in the later phase of the development of Dutch neo-classical marquetry furniture, lacquer panels were very popular and that the lacquer was almost always combined with light woods to produce a strong colour contrast.