These shelves with acroteria-capped and plinth-supported trestles and patera-enriched brackets relate to the Grecian fashion popularised by George Smith's The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. They are likely to have been commissioned for Oakly Park following the Hon. Robert Clive's marriage in 1817 to Lady Harriet Windsor, daughter of the Earl of Plymouth. The shelves' style harmonises with the Hellenistic decoration introduced to the dining-room in the mid-1820s by the architect Charles Robert Cockerell (d.1863); see: C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Late Georgian, London, 1958, p. 160).
Mrs. Rotton bought several things for Stokesay at a house sale at Oakly Park in 1944.