Greber (loc.cit.) illustrates a group of similar bureaux including this piece, dating from the late 1760's and varying only in small details. A particularly close parallel is in Schloss Favorite bei Rastatt (fig. 226), which has the same unusual tambour shutter composed of book-spines. Like this bureau, all the bureaux illustrated by Greber have the same unusual constructional features adopted by Roentgen - the legs are made as a totally separate element instead of being an extension of the angles in the framework of the carcase; the resulting joints are disguised by the mounts. This device may have necessitated the pronounced bombé outline of the bureau and the high hipped profile of the legs