This elegant 'set of tables' with its richly-figured mahogany, may have been commissioned to serve as the banqueting/board-room table of King George III's Royal Antiquarian Society shortly after the King's grant of rooms overlooking the Strand at Somerset House, where the Fellows first met in 1781. A separate dining-club, entitled the Noviomagians, was founded by the Antiquaries in 1828.
A pattern for such dining-tables, comprising 'circular' tables accompanied by two 'square' tables, features in Gillows of Oxford Street's Estimate Sketch Books for 1784, and the Palmyreen sunflowered-patterae, displayed in the table's ribbon-framed frieze, features in their drawings at the period and would have harmonised with Sir William Chamber's interior decoration at Somerset House (J. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition, New York, 1982, p.80, fig.77).
However the table has not been identified in the Society's archives and prior to its removal to Kelmscott Manor it had been in the Fellows' Room.