The table, with fluted columnar legs, is conceived in the early 19th Century French antique style. Its sunk-tablet frieze, veneered in fine feather-figured mahogany, is flanked by bronze libation paterae that are embossed with bacchic lion masks derived from the Capitoline Museum's Egyptian lion antiquity. Similer paterae feature on a chimneypiece invented about 1802 for his Duchess Street mansion/museum by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1831) and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 58).