This table may be the pair to a table of exactly the same dimensions that was acquired from Hotspur Ltd. by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1949 (W.41-1949). The Victoria and Albert Museum table has small urns on the upper horizontal tiers of the legs and pierced crockets filling the lower tiers. These pieces are only glued on and it is possible that the Newman table had them but lost them some time ago as there is now no trace. Since 1974 the Victoria and Albert Museum table has been on loan at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the home of the poet Lord Byron. It is illustrated above and in J.F. Hayward, Tables, London, 1961, fig. 2, and A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 217.
This 'Sideboard-table' with Gothic ribbon-guilloche fretted with a flowered mosaic has cut-through pilaster legs which derive from patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. 39, and John Mayhew and William Ince's The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, p. XI.