This bookcase cabinet, with columned-corners and Egyptian-striated tablets, is designed in the French/antique style such as Thomas Chippendale Junior introduced in the library furniture at Stourhead, Wiltshire around 1804. The tablets feature in particular on a group of furniture associated with John McLean of Marylebone Street, whose work was illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803 (S. Redburn, 'John McLean and Son', Furniture History, Leeds, 1978, pls. 32A and 42B).