The richly-flowered cabinet, has doors inlaid with sunflowers framed by posies that emerge from foliage-wreathed scrolls of Roman acanthus in the mid-17th Century French arabesque style associated with Paul Androuet du Cerceau, some of whose engravings published in Divers Ornemens de feuillages en forme de Panneaux à l'Usage de Ceux qui exercent le Dessin, inventez et gravez par A. Ducerceau were reissued in London in Robert Pricke's The Ornaments of Architecture of 1674. Similar compositions, but with vases in place of sunflowers, feature on a wardrobe that is also inlaid with Solomonic columns together with the badge of James, Duke of York, later King James II (O. Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p.108). A 17th Century table-top, whose flowered inlay likewise includes ivory-petalled jasmin, forms part of a pier-set at Petworth House, Sussex (C. Cator, 'Haupt at Petworth', Furniture History, Leeds, 1993, fig. 5, pp. 72-79).