The design for this desk is closely based on a design for Ackermann's Repository of Arts for 1822 and illustrated in P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 141, pl. 126
The text notes that 'The annexed design, drawn from a specimen executed by Messrs. Durham, late Morgan, Catherine-street, Strand, is perhaps the best of its kind'