Footnotes

• Error in description. The cocus wood would not be veneered on oak, clearly it is veneered on pine. The drawer linings are oak. The cabinet carcass is also pine.
  For a scriptor of similar date, see the collection at Ham House, Surrey (NT1139736.1). Made for the Duke of Lauderdale's private closet, using burr-elm veneers, with a comparable fitted interior. The stand also with spiral-turned legs.
  
  For a celebrated pair of cocus wood veneered cabinets see Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Collection, Windsor Castle, Berkshire (RCIN 35297). At least one of the cabinets was made for Henrietta Maria (1609-1669), widow of Charles I and mother of Charles II, and probably formed part of the dowager Queen's furnishings at Somerset House, London. Dr Adam Bowett refers to the cabinets as a 'tours de force of cabinet-making' with 'no compelling reason to doubt their English manufacture', see English Furniture 1660-1714, p. 40. A cocus wood cabinet-on-stand is illustrated Ibid., p.54, pl. 2.35.
  
  For a description of cocus wood, or Jamaican ebony, and its use by English cabinet makers from the 1660s onwards see ibid. p. 307. The author notes that it is rare to find cocus wood used after 1680. 'By this time olivewood, walnut and marquetry were more common', p. 54.

Saleroom notices

• Error in description. The cocus wood would not be veneered on oak, clearly it is veneered on pine. The drawer linings are oak. The cabinet carcass is also pine.