Apart from their beautifully figured 'Spanish' mahogany, so typical of Messrs Gillows' cabinet-work in the early 19th Century, the projection columnettes with their palm-enriched capitals, ring-turning and combined spiral and straight reeding corresponds to their bedposts, such as those of the 'Hope family' bed in the collection of the Leeds Art Galleries (see C.Gilbert, Vernacular Furniture, 1991, fig. 83).
The cabled reeding beneath foliate capitals also appears on Messrs. Gillow's billiard-table pattern as featured in their Estimate Sketch Books of 1822, no. 3201