The picturesque flower-festooned frame, with its plinth-supported and serpentined legs of addorsed and voluted acanthus scrolls, relates to patterns for 'Marble tables, after the French Manner', published by Batty Langley in his The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, London, 1745, pl. CXLI-CXLVI. Related frames, with central cartouches of Cupid rather that Apollo masks, were supplied in 1745 by James Pascall for Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire, (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 1978, no. 450, p.358-9), while the carving relates to that of a pair of console tables from the collection of Mrs. Ionides, now in the Bowes Museum, Yorkshire (D. Garlick, 'Treasures of the Bowes Museum', Apollo, 1968, p.116, fig.9).
This table was advertised by Jeremy, in The Connoisseur, September 1966.