The elegant herm-legged table has French-fashioned hollow corners in the manner of a 'card-table' pattern illustrated in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite and Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 61. The lonzenged tablet features on a group of late 18th Century furniture manufactured by Messrs. Seddon, Sons and Shackleton including one of their dressing-tables bearing the date 1794 (C.Gilbert, 'Seddon, Sons and Shackleton', Furniture History, 1997, p. 4, fig.19).