This design of dressing-table derives from a sideboard-table pattern published in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802, pl. 26. With its oak veneer, Etruscan-black ribbon inlay, reed-banded columnar legs, and truncated-arch spandrels it relates to furniture designed in 1815 for Napoleon's residence at St. Helena by George Bullock (d.1818), cabinet-maker of London and Liverpool and in particular to the sideboard-table (see: C. Wainwright, George Bullock, London, 1988, fig. 34)