Domenico Benotti of Florence, Italy designed this week’s cabinet in 1644; the subject includes ‘Orpheus Playing to the Beasts’ with figures of Juno, Hercules and Jupiter.  John Evelyn, who traveled extensively through France and Italy during the English Civil War, purchased the cabinet.  While in Florence, he ordered the pietra dura plaques directly from Benotti, who was then considered one of the ‘celebrated masters’ of design.  Arriving in England, the cabinet was housed in Dover Street, London, and after Evelyn’s death in 1706, it moved to his country residence, Wotton House in Surrey.