The table, with its antique fluted pillar in the George II manner, may possibly have formed part of the furnishings commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Strafford (d. 1791) for Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire, at a time that he was patronising Richard Wright and Edward Elwick of Wakefield, Yorkshire (see The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 1006-7).