The golden pier-table top, executed in filigreed relief with a mosaic of ribbon-scrolls wrapped by Roman acanthus and enclosing a flowered compartment, recalls the French arabesque patterns for upholstery included in the 1712 oeuvre of William III's 'architect' Daniel Marot (d.1752), as well as his table-tops illustrated in Nouveaux livre d'Ornements, pour l'utilitée des Sculpteurs, et Orfèvres. Its serpentined frame is similarly decorated with foliated legs, and a hollowed frieze displaying Venus's shell in an arabesque-scrolled ribbon relates to Marot's Corniches patterns. This type of decoration is particularly associated with James Moore (d.1726) cabinet-maker to King George I. He has been credited with the execution of a table with closely related frame supplied in 1726 for Erdigg, Denbighshire, but this has now been shown to be the work of John Belchier (d.1753), the eminent cabinet-maker of St. Paul's Churchyard (R. Edwards, Georgian Cabinet-Maker, London, 1950, fig. 31 and O. Garnett, Erdigg, London, 1995, p. 10). Belchier is also likely to have supplied the pier-table with related gilt-gessoed top that stood in Erdigg's Second Best Bedchamber (O. Garnett, op. cit., p. 48).

The table may have been transformed into a centre-table by Ronald and Nancy Tree, and was displayed beside a Grecian-sofa in the Drawing Room at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, which they purchased in 1933. A closely related gilt-gesso table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 28 June 1979, lot 88.