The form of 'spider-leg' tables were usually executed as gate-leg tables in imitation of the early 18th century form of side tables with hinged flaps to each side. Around 1760 there was a revival of this form which had become outdated and unfashionable. A table of this form at The Vyne, Hampshire, was described in the 1776 inventory as a 'spider leg' table (R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 553, figs 18 & 19).