This rusticated medallion frame is designed in the George II picturesque manner and comprises entwined vines springing from a water-dripped rocky bracket to enclose a leaf-nibbling goat at the base and an exotic bird perched on the cresting. Its form relates to a foliated frame in One Hundred and Fifty New Designs, 1758, pl.33 issued by the carver Thomas Johnson, while another frame pattern featured bacchic vines and a goat as part of a trophy celebrating the Vintage (pl.6). Vines and a nibbling goat had also featured on a wall-sconce pattern illustrated in his Twelve Girandoles, 1755, (pl.6) together with another sconce (pl.8) recalling Aesop's fable of the Fox and Crow, which was derived from Francis Barlow's Aesop's Fables, 1687 (H. Hayward, Thomas Johnson and English Rococo, 1964, p.11).