The sideboard-table is designed in the George IV 'antiquarian' or revived 'George II' style. Its serpentined legs, enriched with flower-framed 'Venus' shells, terminate in Bacchic lion-paws; while its acanthus-wrapped frieze displays on a Roman tablet-scroll the Sherard armorial-crest of a ducal coronet plumed with peacock feathers. The table may have been commissioned by Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough for Stapleford Hall, Leicestershire, and its style harmonised with the furnishings that had been introduced in the early 18th Century by the first Earl.