This remarkable cupboard with its fanciful pierced and carved upper panels has pegged full-length doors with simple and sober linenfold to the lower panels. The plain design of the carcase provides an harmonious setting for the exhuberant upper panels that illustrate Lorimer's sense of humour and fantasy. Mischievous and greedy monkeys gobble nuts amid a mediaeval tracery of tendrils and vine leaves, liberally endowed with nuts, they are literally stuffing their faces. In the other panel wild pigs rest their snouts on acorns amid a similar tracery of tendrils, they sniff their food with more decorum than the monkeys; perhaps they would have preferred truffles, but these may have been problematic to represent and not as decorative as acorns (!). A Jacobean style sideboard designed for the dining room at Gibliston and almost identical to that sold from this source, Christie's Scotland, 14th May 1997, Lot 407, has a carved back that the incorporates very similar panels. (Now in the collection of the National Museums of Scotland) it is possible that the panels were carved by W & A Clow who had executed the stalls at the Thistle Chapel some years earlier and for thirty years worked exclusively for Sir Robert. Lorimer kept two for himself and put the other two in the Balmanno cupboard. These panels illustrate eloquently (some of) the gifts that Lorimer conceived to be the requirements of a stained-glass artist and that Christopher Hussey recognised were (among) the very qualities that Lorimer embodied. "....... he must be a keen lover and minute observer of nature. He must feel the endless suggestion of buds and berries and seed-pots, of creeping and flying things, of the twilight and the dawn......."