The cabinet is richly filigreed with Roman acanthus in the Louis XIV antique manner popularised to Gerreit Jensen (d.1715), cabinet-maker to William III and Mary II and relates to the 'glass case of fine markatree upon a Cabonett with doors 'that he supplied for Kensington Palace in 1693 (see R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers', London, 1965 fig 5). The sides are centred by octagon mosaic compartments with ribbon-scrolled frames, such as feature on the longcase of an earlty 18th Century clock by Henry Poisson in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (see H. Cescinskly English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, p.281 fig 290)