This red-ebony pier-cabinet or chiffonier, with its reeded pilaster strips headed by console brackets and rosettes above, relates to a suite of bookcases supplied by Gillows of Lancaster for the library at Tatton Park, Cheshire, in 1811. Designed in the French manner, its S-supports derivative of the scrolled swan supports illustrated by Percier and Fontaine (Recueils de Decorations Interieurs, Paris, 1812, pl.6, fig.4). This chiffonier with its aggresively gadrooned toupie feet, relates closely to the rosewood commode-chiffonier, ill. in. M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, Glasgow, Ref.1949, p.139, fig.156.
A related 'mahogany cabinet for a pier', its pilasters surmounted by 'trusses' and supported on 'reduced stumpt' feet, is illustrated in the Gillow sketch books for 1818 (Westminster Public Library, Gillows archives, no.2093).