This writing-table in the Louis XIV manner with 'boulle' inlay and central table mounted with the mask of a river god wreathed in fronds, is almost identical except in contre partie to one illustrated in C. Claxten Stevens and S. Whittington 18th Century Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp. 170-171. However this table does not have a boulle top but instead has leather with spandrels like a writing-table exhibted in the 'Fanfare for Europe, The British Art Market' at Christie's, 1973, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 188, illustrated. Another pair of almost identical writing-tables with lyre-ends were in the tapestry room at Ditchley, Oxfordshire (C. Hussey, English Country Homes, Early Georgian, 1715-1760, London 1955, p. 71, pl. 95)