This press' sunk panels and richly-figure mahogany correspond to those of a pair of clothes-presses supplied in 1764 by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) to Sir Lawrence Dundas at Aske Hall, Yorkshire (see: C. Gilbert, Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 243). It relates to a pattern published in Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. ed., 1762, pl. CXXIX.
The pattern for the oval-medallion escutcheon with eagle-surmounted tablet features in a metal-worker's 'Wrought Book' illustrated in N. Goodison, 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-work Pattern Books', Furniture History, 1970, fig. 30