The serpentined top of satinwood diagonal-ray veneered from the centre, is inlaid with flower marquetry in a tablet and quatrefoiled medallion of satinwood within chequer-ribbon frames. The marquetry, executed in the manner associated with King George III's cabinet-maker John Cobb (d. c. 1778) of St. Martin's Lane, comprises a ribbon-tied posy centred by a rose, sacred to Venus, and is framed by roses and flower-stems arranged mirror-fashion (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 95). Its floral pattern corresponds to that of a table sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 5 July 1990, lot 83. While the latter table has hermed legs, both have serpentined frames whose tablets have poetic laurels festooned over rosettes to emerge through flowered medallions above the legs. A similarly festooned frame featured on a pair of herm-legged marquetry tables from Ingerthorpe Grange, North Yorkshire, sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 5 May 1995, lot 120 and on a serpentine side table sold by the Trustees from another North Yorkshire house, Irton Manor, Messrs. Hollis and Webb house sale, 17 July 1950, lot 16.