The night-table, with 'Etruscan'-pearled ribbons and flute-enriched angles and columnar legs, is designed in the late 1760s 'antique' manner. It shares the exeptional rich veneer and fine carved reed-gadrooning as features on a pair of commodes supplied in 1768 by James Cullen (d.1779) of Great Street, Soho for the state apartments of Hopetoun House, West Lothian, Scotland. Hopetoun's commodes and en suite night-tables are also inlaid with chequer-mosaic ribbons framing the marble-like mahogany panels (A. Coleridge 'James Cullen, cabinet-maker, at Hopetoun House - 1', The Connoisseur, November 1966, p. 159 and M. Snodin, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England, London, 1984, no. L70). A related bedroom pembroke-table, now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, also features fluted columnar legs and bears an inlaid tablet inscribed 'Jas. Cullen Londini Soho, fecit 1769' (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 171, figs. 269 and 270). In the previous decade Cullen had been involved in the establishment of the Edinburgh Upholstery, Joiner and Mirror Glass Co., and another of his Scottish clients around 1770 was the 3rd Duke of Atholl, but none of his furniture supplied for Blair Castle, Scotland has yet been identified (ibid., p. 24).