e must examine this. However a prior call was a search of the Hertford family papers in the Warwick Records office. In the Expenditure Accounts for Ragley for the years 1757-1762 the only entries relating to London cabinet-makers which are apparent are four to Mr. Vile (presumably William Vile, George

shaped borders to the Cupid's bow tops are mounted with ormolu gadrooned edges. The French names commodes with two doors commodes a Vantaux and the Ragley commodes are designed in the French `picturesque' manner which first appeared in Paris in about 1745. This form would have been very novel to even a