The robust table has arch-buttressed trestles in the William IV 'antique' or 'Louis XII' fashion popularised by A.W.N. Pugin's Gothic Furniture in the Style of the 15th Century, 1835, (see lot 756). This style was introduced in Pugin's New Palace of Westminster designs in the late 1840s, and the Medieval Court of the 1851 Great Exhibition, and revived by the Shoreditch manufacturers Charles and Richard Light in their Cabinet Furniture: Designs and Catalogue of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture, 1880.