The rectangular top with four panels inlaid with a lion, a unicorn, a pheasant and a goose enclosing an oval panel inlaid with two birds and a dog, above a case with two short over three long drawers with foliate scrolls, the stand drawer inlaid with birds, on bun feet; the drawers lined with contemporary woodblock printed wallpaper or lining paper depicting a woman sitting on a basket fishing.

Height 39 in (99 cm), width 36 in (91.4 cm), depth 21 in (53.3 cm)

Colonel C. H. Norris, Swalcliffe Park, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire.

The Collection of The Right Honourable William Lever, Viscount Leverhulme, sold, The Anderson Galleries, New York City, February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1926, lot 273.

Sotheby's New York, October 18, 2006, lot 168.

Literature:

Alan Sugden and John Edmundson, A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914, London, 1925, fig. 17, illustrating an interior of one of the drawers.

Charles Oman and Jean Hamilton, Wallpapers: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., p. 98, no. 29.

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