Conceived in the manner of an Oriental cabinet and furnished with richly decorated mounts, this cabinet is japanned to resemble polychromed-lacquer after the James II style elucidated by John Stalker and George Parker's Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, 1688. Here Chinese enjoy a collation before an exotic landscape of waterside-pavilions dominated by a fir tree, while birds hover in a garden above huge flowering shrubs. Similar imagery decorates a cabinet with trompe l'oeil French-fashion tortoiseshell ground that is reputed to have come from Hardwick Grange, Shropshire and is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (Museum no. W20-1959). This cabinet's frame, emblematic of Peace and Plenty, is designed in the Louis XIV antique or arabesque manner popularised by the engravings of Daniel Marot (d.1752) and relates to the work of Grinling Gibbons (d.1721), who in 1693 was appointed King William III's 'Master Sculptor and carver in Wood'. A nature goddess is displayed against its acanthus-wrapped and ribbon-scrolled lambrequined apron, which is inhabited by putti; while a flower-festoon incorporating Ceres's corn-ears, is draped from their flower-festooned companions, who serve like herm-posts and emerge from the legs' acanthus-wrapped volutes.