The Mount Trust Collection is perhaps best-known for its exceptional group of mainly Italian Renaissance masterpieces, as well as sporting British pictures, which were the subject of an article written by Denys Sutton in Connoisseur, October 1960, pp. 103-107. Formed under the guidance of Captain and Mrs. Vivian Bulkeley-Johnson for The Mount, Churchill, Oxfordshire, this private collection, assembled in the mid- 20th century, embraced several fields including exceptional Oriental works of art and English furniture, a small part of which was sold alongside this tripod table at Christie's on 22 November 1973.