The serpentine panels of this bureau-cabinet relate to those of a bed, with antiquarian panelled headboard and canopy, acquired for Knebworth House, Hertfordshire in the 1740s and attributed to the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780). The bed was sold by Lady Cobbold, in these Rooms, 14 November 1996, lot 36.

A closely related bureau-cabinet (illustrated above) is illustrated in R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, p. 245, fig. 210 (detail p. 191, fig. 149).