The veneer for the table-top, including its crescent leaves, were cut from a single richly figured walnut slab, opened and reversed to create a quatrefoil pattern. Patterns for related circular tables with stretcher-tied columnar feet, fluted and reeded in the 'antique' manner, featured in the furniture pattern book Cabinet Furniture published by C & R Light of Shoreditch in 1881 (see: E. Joy, British 19th Century Furniture Design, Suffolk, 1977, p.503).