An almost identical desk in the collection of the Countess Fitzwilliam, Milton, is illustrated in J. Lees-Milne, Milton - I, Connoisseur, August 1960, fig. 7. The Milton desk would have been made for William, 3rd Earl of Fitzwilliam who married the heiress Lady Anne Watson-Wentworth, sister of the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, in 1744

It also relates to a mahogany kneehole desk supplied by William Vile in 1762 for the King's Blue Library, Buckingham House, which is probably the one now at the Palace of Holyroodhouse (see: O. Bracket and H. Clifford Smith, English Furniture Illustrated, London, rev. ed., 1950, pl. CLXXVI)