The combined jewel-box and domed cabinet for coins, medallions etc., is exotically veneered in ivory in the fashion for which Augsburg was celebrated in the early 17th Century. Fretted acanthus-scrolled escutcheons accompany wave-ribboned borders lining the exterior and interior, which is jewelled with cabochoned simulated cornelians and inlaid with lozenge-shaped plaques and medallions of green marble which also features in the central tabernacle compartment with its Doric marble-columned triumphal arch and scrolled pediment.

A related cabinet at Skokloster, Denmark is embellished with painted plaques derived from biblical subjects published in Augsburg in 1613 (see: J. Knutsson, Cabinets at Skokloster, 1985, cat. no. 8); and another was acquired by the Victoira & Albert Museum in 1923 (Museum no. W60). A grander version of these cabinets, in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, bears the date 1646 and inscription of the Augsburg cabinet-maker Ulrich Baumgartner (d. 1652) (see: G. Himmelheber, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1977, fig. 39)