Despite its Scottish provenance, this coffer is undoubtedly Irish. The coffer stands on a typically Irish stand with plain waved apron, centred by a carved satyr mask. Like related Irish tables, this plain form would appear to have been in vogue during the 1740s. An almost identical mask appears on a side table illustrated in A. Coleridge and D. Fitz-Gerald, 'Eighteenth Century Irish Furniture, A Provincial Manifestation', Apollo, October 1966, pp. 277 and 280, figs. 3 and 9.