Patterns for related oval 'voiders' or trays were published in Messrs William Ince and John Mayhew's Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, and featured the Ionic-scrolled handles after the Roman and antique manner introduced in the 1720s. One such oval cistern, wreathed with golden ribbons, was acquired by Robert Berry (d. 1782) for Raith, Scotland and serves for glasses and bottles in a painting executed in 1769 by Johann Zoffany (see Arts Council Exhibition, Johann Zoffany, 1960, no. 11).
Shrubland Park, Suffolk is an Italianate mansion, at the heart of which is a five bay brick house built for Rev'd John Bacon by James Paine in the early 1770s. It was enlarged between 1830 and 1832 by J.P. Gandy-Deering and further encased by Sir Charles Barry.