The pattern for this cabinet with convex corners flanked by paired columns, featured in Plate III from the Appendix to Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1793. The black trompe l'oeil fluting in the Etruscan manner was a popular feature of the work of Gillows of London and Lancaster in the early 19th Century, and the company manufactured a sideboard of this form in 1801, which features in their Work Books, no. 1615