This table forms part of a distinct group incorporating finely painted floral garlands and flower-filled cornucopiae on a satinwood or satin-birch ground within beaded borders on a gilt frame. One pair with virtually identical frames and tops is illustrated in R.Fastnedge, Sheraton Furniture, 1962, fig.28a. This pair was acquired about 1905 by J. Orrock, sold in 1910 to Lord Leverhulme (d.1925), and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Other examples this group include a table offered Sotheby's London, 23 February 1990, lot 81, a pair sold Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1985, lot 191, and a pair illustrated in C.Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, 1983,pp.338 and 310. Another pair of related tables with 'japanned' tops were commissioned around 1780 for the Breakdast Room at Hanbury, Worcestershire (J.Hawworth, "Hanbury Hall', Country Life, 12 December 1991, pp.50-51).

The pattern for this elegant side table, conceived in the Louis XVI style with canted rounded corners, was published by Thoms Sheraton, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholstered's Drawing Book, Appendix, 1793, pl.IV. SHeraton notes that such tables-tops would often have 'richly japanned' two inch borders, with a narrow cross-band, supported by a gilt frame. The foliate carving of the frame relates to a pier-table pattern in A.Hepplewhite & Co's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guides, 1788-1794, pl.64. The conjoined cornucopiae of the center, a feature of several tables in the group, recall those of a Roman temple architrave illustrated by G.B. Piranesi in his Della Magnificenza et Architecttura de Romani, 1761, pl. XVII. The distinctive peacock feather motifs framing the central medallion of the tables offered appears on the work of Seddon, Sons and Shackleton, for example on the well-known suite of seat furniture supplied by them to D. Tupper of Hauteville House, Guernsey in 1790 (F.Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p.65, pl.7).