This brass-inlaid and finely-figured black-rosewood cabinet with stepped plinth, is designed in the French/antique manner introduced by George Bullock (d.1818) in the early 19th Century. Its recessed commode is surmounted by a stepped 'cippus-altar' cornice with pateraed trusses which are now missing. The recess is flanked by glazed pedestal-cabinets fitted for medal collections. Bullock, cabinet-maker of London and Liverpool and President of the Liverpool Academy which was founded in 1810, opened workshops at 4, Tenterden Street, Hanover Square in 1814. He had been involved with his brother, the sculptor William Bullock, in the establishment of the 'Grecian Rooms' at the Piccadilly 'Museum' four years previously. Related cabinets, supplied to the artist William Roscoe (d.1816), Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy and depicted on either side of his drawing-room fireplace at Allerton Hall, Lancashire, were described as 'beautiful' when listed in 1816 and described as being 'of Ebony, inlaid with Brass, with four doors, and divisions for Drawings, and drawers above and below for Medals etc; made by Mr. George Bullock' (C. Wainwright, et.al., George Bullock Cabinet Maker, London, 1988, no.6). Another related rosewood cabinet, which has marble-topped pedestals and brass-inlaid panels deriving from a pattern invented about 1810, is likely to have formed part of the furnishings introduced to Painswick House, Gloucestershire by William Henry Hyett (d.1877) soon after his inheritance of the property in 1810. The latter cabinet, is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum and is illustrated together with the brass pattern which is preserved in the Bullock/Wilkinson archive at the Birmingham City Art Gallery (C. Wainwright, op.cit., no.41 and p.72).