This elegant library window-pier writing-table is designed in the 'antique'manner with 'herm'-pilaster feet. Fitted with a hinged-flap top, that can be supported by hinged outward-folding legs at the back, its leather-lined interior is impressed with a golden Grecian-fret ribbon border, and fitted with hinged-top writing-compartments flanking a hinged bureau-slope. This conceals a locked well-compartment, and which bolts underneath in the manner of contemporary square-piano. this style of tapering leg with block plinth features in A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, but had already been fashionable for a decade as can be seen on a pembroke-table supplied for Osterley Park House in the late 1770s. (See: A. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, no. J/5).