The cabinet is designed in the 17th Century 'antique' manner with a marble-like facade of tortoiseshell with gilt enrichments (gernisement) and incorporates drawers that are jewelled with acanthus-framed cabochons and a theatric mirror-lined 'perspective' compartment, whose tabernacle doors celebrate 'Love's Triumph' with music-making putti emerging from a triumphal arch whose exotic ivory-balustraded cornice is supported by paired caryatid herm-pilasters. These putti herms also feature on related Nüremberg cabinets, such as one with heart-embossed doors anonymously sold at Sotheby's London, 9 December 1988, lot 38, and another illustrated in R. Fabri, Meubles d'apparat des Pays-Bays méridionaux, Brussels, 1989, no. 4, while the musical putti related to those executed in silver on a Flemish cabinet at the Victoria & Albert Museum (Fabri, op.cit., p. 27)