The oval frame is surmounted by an Earl's coronet and demi-sunflower, while its voluted pediment emerges from richly fretted and acanthus-twined ribbons that spring from voluted scrolls at the base. It is designed in the French arabesque manner popularised by Daniel Marot's Oeuvres, circa 1700, and its ribbon-scrolls relate to those of a fire-screen frame supplied in the late 17th Century to William III and attrributed to the carver John Pelletier (d. 1710) (see: R. Edwards, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, 1955, fig. 4)