The open tripod base, with a concave stretcher between, relates to a mahogany tripod table supplied by William Masters to the 2nd Duke of Atholl for Blair Castle, Perthshire in 1755. Masters of 'The Golden Fleece, Coventry Street, Piccadilly', was chiefly responsible for the refurnishing and decoration of the State Rooms at Blair Castle. His work is of a consistently high quality, and the survival of his bills at Blair Castle, enable much of his work to be identified (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 156-7, fig. 398). Another table with a similar concave-sided central support, open tripod base and similar legs, is illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, London, rev. ed., 1985, p. 297. It was sold from the Estate of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, in the Prescott Collection, Christie's New York, 31 January 1981, lot 286.