This side table is one in a series of almost identical form. One of the group was probably supplied to Charles, 9th Viscount Irwin, for Temple Newsam, in Leeds, Yorkshire (illustrated in C.Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. II 1978, pl. 336).
Another example presented in the entrance hall at Newby Hall, Yorkshire is illustrated in C.Hussey, Mid-Georgian English Country Houses, 1955, p. 143, pl. 285. Thomas Chippendale was known to have supplied furniture to both of these houses.
A third example with original marble slab top can be seen at Stanmer House, Brighton, Sussex (illustrated in C.Hussey, Early Georgian Country Houses, 1955, p. 57, pl. 64). It is probable that all of the tables in this group would have originally been supplied with a marble top.
Although there can be no certain Chippendale attribution of the Newby table, Christopher Gilbert regards this and other undocumented pieces at the house as 'fringe Chippendale pieces needing further correlation to make an attribution acceptable' (C.Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, vol. I, 1978, p. 267). Gilbert also compares the detailing on the frieze to that on the seatrails of the library chairs at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire.