This table's mahogany top is framed by an Etruscan black ribbon-band of rosewood while black-banded tablets embellish the frieze and trestle-ends. These terminate in Grecian-scrolled claw-feet. The drawers' ormolu ring-handles are borne by Egyptian lioness-masks, such as featured in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. 45. A related lion-headed handle appears on a 'sofa-table' of this general form illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Encylopedia, 1804, pl. 1. This lioness pattern also features on a writing-table supplied around 1810 to Southill Park, Bedfordshire (see: R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. III, p. 262, fig. 54).
A closely related sofa table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 April 1988, lot 149