The tables are embellished in the French 'arabesque' fashion popularised by ornamental engravings issued around 1700 by Daniel Marot (d. 1752), 'architect' to King William III. A pier-table, with related ribbon-scrolled and acanthus-enriched frieze centred by a bacchic mask, was formerly in the collection of Colonel N. R. Colville and was illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards' The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, rev.ed. Vol. III, p. 280, fig. 19. Among related pier-tables, with satyr masks on the legs, was one sold from the collection of the late Sir Harold Wernher, Bt., G.C.V.O, at Sotheby's London, 24 May 1995, lot 13, and another reputedly from Nottingham Castle, illustrated in R.W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, (p. 70). The satyrs' richly plumed helmets also relate to those of brass masks on the stand of a cabinet dating from around 1740 at the Bristol Museums and Art Gallery (C. Gilbert and T. Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760, New Haven and London, 1993 pls. XIX and XX).