The fashionable Regency library table of this 'antique' form, with 'French' inlaid tablets and 'Grecian'-scrolled end-supports united by a stretcher, can be found in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 1810 (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture, 1984, p. 47). Ackermann commented on a related writing and games table with end extensions, illustrated in his Repository for February 1814, 'It is very light, goes upon castors, and is particularly pleasant to sit before...' (Agius, op. cit., p. 47).
A related table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 27 February 1992, lot 113.