The china-galleried bookcase, with recessed 'commode’ ends, is mosaiced with geometric floral inlay in the mid-l9th Century fashion promoted by furniture designers such as J. P. Seddon and his protégé Charles Bevan. The latter was employed by Messrs. John Marsh and Edward Jones, Mediaeval Cabinet Makers of Leeds following ter establishment of their Cavendish Square showrooms in the 1860s. Amongst the related furniture was Bevan's Medieval fashioned piano, executed in satinwod and polychrome with inlays’ cut by the specialist craftsman Mr. Vert. (illustrated in The Building News, March 1867; C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol II, No.521a)