This walnut dressing-table has golden arabesques of Roman acanthus inlaid in mosaic compartments in the French manner, known as 'filigree' in the late 17th Century. It relates to a pewter-inlaid table almost certainly supplied by Gerrit Jensen (d.1715), cabinet-maker to Charles II, James II and William III, to Lady Mary Mordaunt for Drayton House, Northamptonshire (G. Jackson-Stops ed., The Treasure Houses of Britain, London, 1985, p.168, no.98). The top, with its central ovoid medallion of arch-sided tablet, corresponds to the doors of a filigreed cabinet illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, 1, p.169, fig.15.

A closely related dressing-table from the Mulliner Collection with identically-patterned seaweed marquetry top is illustrated in H. H. Mulliner, The Decorative Arts in England 1660-1780, London, n.d., fig. 48.