The pier-table, with frieze and 'herm' feet embellished with inlaid flutes and flowered tablets, is designed in the George III 'antique' style introduced around 1770. Its form and combination of mahogany and satinwood features, for instance, on card-tables at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The latter's refurbishment in the early 1770s under the direction of the architect Sir William Chambers (d. 1796) was largely carried out by Messrs Ince and Mayhew, authors of the Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (see H. Roberts, 'Furniture for the 4th Duke of Marlborough', Furniture History, 1994, p.136, fig.23).
The label may refer to Algernon William Fulke, 2nd Baron Greville (d.1909), Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria (1868-73) and Lord of the Treasury (1873-74)