This pier-table, like the Ditchley table (lot 229) which it closely resembles, may originally have displayed a gessoed top. The large acanthus leaves wrapping its frieze, correspond to those of the table by John Belchier at Erdigg (O. Garnett, Erdigg, London, 1995, p. 10) but the latter's shell badges are here replaced by acanthus-husks.