The table's flowered and cypher-medallioned top wreathed by acanthus-wrapped ribbons matches those of a pair of pier-tables supplied to William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, later 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d.1755) and bearing the initials WKH in celebration of his marriage to Katherine Hoskins in 1718 (O.Bracket An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London 1927, p.101). The frame, ornamented with a stately plumed cartouche and scallop-enriched legs terminating in hocked and acanthus-wrapped feet, relates to a set of George I chairs thought to have been supplied by James Moore (d.1726), cabinet-maker to George I, for Cannons, the Middlesex mansion built by the architect James Gibbs (d.1754) for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (d.1744) (a pair sold Christie's Houghton sale at King Street 8th December 1994, lot 135). An identical pair of silver gessoed tables bearing the HW cypher were illustrated F. Lenygon, The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1914, pp.258-259, figs. 390, 392.