The most closely related type of furniture is a group of buckets, some on stands, that also have doors in the front and which were probably used as commodes to conceal chamber pots. There is one that now lacks its door and its stand at Malahide Castle, Ireland (G.A. Kenyon, Irish Furniture at Malahide Castle, Dublin, 1994, p. 67) and another was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 July 1992, lot 127. It had both door and stand.
There is a large beer barrel mounted on a low stand at Tabley House, Cheshire, although its castors are mounted on the outside rather than elegantly concealed beneath the stand as here (R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. II, p. 107, fig. 5).