The internal arrangement and waved arched plates of this bureau-bookcase are closely related to a black-japanned example from Fonthill House, Wiltshire (illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodwin, English Furniture 1500 - 1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 41, fig. 4), which is associated on stylistic grounds to the work of John Belchier (d. 1753) of 'The Sun', St. Paul's Churchyard. However, the deployment of large Chinoiserie figures to the interior of the doors is more often connected with the oeuvre of Belchier's contemporary Giles Grendey (d. 1780). Grendey's most celebrated commission was the suite of scarlet japanned furniture supplied to the Duke of Infantando for the Castle of Lazcano, Northern Spain, and the flattened arch of the pigeon-holes and busy treatment of the fall-front and drawer-fronts relate to a bureau-cabinet from the Castle of Lazcano, sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1988, lot 129. A bureau-cabinet with related waved apron was sold in these Rooms, 27 June 1989, lot 177.