The cabinet rectangular with central cupboard surrounded by a single drawer above and below and five drawers on each side. The central doors separated by three pilasters veneered with ebony and red tortoiseshell with pewter stringing. The plinths with gilt brass bases and Corinthian capitals. The front of the upper drawer treated in architectural manner, the entablature veneered with tortoiseshell, broken scroll pediment of ebony with gilt brass floral paterae on the ends of the scrolls. Gilt brass key-hole escutcheon terminating below in a cherub head. The doors open to disclose a proscenium-like interior decorated with marquetry and set with mirror panels. In the central panel at the back an Italian comedy figure against a perspective background. On each side two panels veneered with figures of halberdiers in mid-17th century costume, each peeping through a half-open door. Behind each is a tier of three drawers. One further drawer is concealed in the balustrading on each side above the panel. Outside the cupboard two tiers of side drawers veneered with floral marquetry of various woods and staghorn on an ebony ground, in the centre of each an oval panel of tortoiseshell and pewter marquetry within a gilt brass guilloche frame. Gilt brass key-hole escutcheons.

The sides veneered with kingwood and with floral marquetry sprays at each corner. The central portion occupied by three rectangular panels, the two outer of red tortoiseshell, the inner of floral marquetry.

The stand with two drawers in the frieze is supported on eight ebonised columnar legs. Floral marquetry apron pieces between the legs. There is an open shelf above the feet, veneered with floral marquetry on an ebony and kingwood ground enclosing red tortoiseshell panels.