The octagon mosaic glazing pattern, recalling Apollo, god of Poetry, derives from R. Woods', Ruins of Palmyra, 1753. It featured in Thomas Chippendale's pattern for a 'Library Case' with 'open pediment' published in A Society of Upholsterers', Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, 1760, fig. 52. While the pattern for the ribbon carving of the pilasters, flanking the interior tabernacle compartment, relates to one of 'Two New Frets for Cabinet Makers etc' in John Crunden's, The Joyner and Cabinet-Maker's Darling, 1765. The glazing also appears on the Pembroke House bookcases supplied by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) under the direction of the architect Sir William Chambers, while the chest with quadrant-sided fall to the secretaire relates to one supplied by Chippendale in 1765 for Aske Hall (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, pp. 42-46 and p. 60, fig. 94). The handle pattern features on various items of furniture supplied by Thomas Chippendale (C. Gilbert, op. cit., vol. II, p. 147, fig. 270).