The wardrobe's 'antique' ornament, comprising lion-feet, applied columns and reeded panels with hollowed corners, derives from cabinet patterns published in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artists's Encyclopaedia, 1806. While its rich carving relates to certain cabinet-work executed in New York in the early 19th Century, its combination of spiralled columns and frieze of richly figured veneer also features on a Bristol manufactured clock-case, bearing the trade-label of the cabinet-maker William Cock (fl. 1816-40; see: Regional Furniture, vol. VII, p. 97)