This type of multi-purpose cabinet, designed for a window-pier and incorporating a pier-glass and candle-slide in a bookcase, together with a bureau dressing-chest above a chest-of-drawers, corresponds to one with walnut veneer bearing the label of John Phillips, cabinet-maker at 'The Cabinet', St. Paul's Churchyard, where he was listed in the late 1720s (Sir A. Heal, London Furniture Makers, London 1953, p.234, fig.16). This cabinet is japanned with Oriental landscapes and flowering shrubs in imitation of lacquer and its exotic ornament, considered appropriate for bedroom apartments, reflects the fashion popularised by John Stalker and George Parker's, Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, 1688. A similar cabinet, with French-arched cornice and a writing-slide fitted in the chest-of-drawers, was sold from the Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, Christie's New York, 31 January 1981, lot 360.