The plinth-supported console table is conceived in the revived Louis Quatorze style of the early 19th Century. With its serpentined dragon-headed trusses, it derives from 'marble table' patterns invented by Nicholas Pineau and published in Mariette's Architecture la Mode, and plagiarised in Batty Langley's The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1740 (see E. White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 35). It was noted as bearing the signature of Richard France in C. Gilbert's Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 211, fig. 364.