These tables were almost certainly supplied for the dining-room at Compton Place, Wiltshire as part of the refurbishment and alterations carried out by its owner Charles Penruddock (d.1789). One of the tables is shown in situ in the seventeenth century dining-room along with other late Georgian furniture in in H.A.Tipping, English Homes, period IV, vol.I, 1920, p.306, fig.383. The neoclassical drawing room with its Adam-style plasterwork ceiling was also probably carried out at this time.

These tables with their parquetry inlaid tops and arrangement of legs compare to a yewwood example supplied by Mayhew and Ince for the Earl of Kerry's house in Portman Square and now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (C. Cator, 'The Earl of Kerry and Mayhew and Ince: the Idlest Ostentation', F.H.S.J., 1990, fig. 2). Another of this form attributed to Mayhew and Ince was sold Christie's London, 15 April 1982, lot 97. A further example was sold in these Rooms, 22 April 1989, lot 113. Another was sold Sotheby's London, 16 November 1984, lot 154.