Designed by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1789) in his French 'picturesque' style, its hollowed cut-corners feature paired and scroll-enriched pilasters, which are bound by acanthus-embossed cartouches and support triumphal-arched and serpentined pediments centred by similar cartouches with pendant husks. The pattern for this 'Lanthorn' was engraved in 1761 and published in Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1763, pl. CLIII. However, in the engraving, the base-rail's asymmetrically-scrolled cartouches are represented the other way up