The inlaid library table with its pedestal and patera-enriched concave-sided 'altar' plinth supported by Etruscan-scrolled and ribbon-inlaid legs, is typical of the French antique style adopted by the Liverpool cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818) following the opening his of London Museum, Piccadilly in 1810. Its style corresponds to that of the Manx-oak table he provided in 1814 for John, 4th Duke of Atholl, and whose top was wreathed with the same laurel pattern as wrap this table's paterae-rounded corners (C.Wainwright, et al., George Bullock, Cabinet-maker, London, 1988, no.8). The Apollo wreath was inspired by that on a round monopodium table illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. XXXIX), and in turn derived from the fashion introduced by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1802.