This table can be related to the work of the English cabinet-maker, John McLean & Son, who practiced in Marylebone Street in London at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries. Several features also appear on many of the McLean pieces such as the use of rosewood veneers highlighted by brass mounts, on a restrained neoclassical form. The particular detail of the star mount on the drawer pull also appears on a sofa table in rosewood by McLean, which is illustrated in S. Redburn, 'John McLean and Son', Furniture History, 1978, pl. 41B.

An almost identical table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 12 March 1970, lot 24. Other examples of this model are known, including one sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 13 April 1989, lot 139, and one formerly in the collection of the 5th Lord Brownlow, sold Sotheby's London, 10 July 1987 and again, Sotheby's New York, 18 October 1997, lot 502. Another is illustrated in F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency Furniture, 1987, p. 95, pl. 181.