The drawing-room table, brass-inlaid in the French manner with flowered paterae and ivy, is designed in the antique manner with a Grecian-lyre pedestal, 'altar' plinth and a Grecian-scrolled 'claw' terminating in lion-paws. Rudolph Ackermann, whose Repository of Arts of 1811 illustrated a 'sofa writing-table' pattern with lyre-inlaid pedestal (pl. 34), recommended that as well as mahogany or satinwood, such tables could be executed in rosewood, kingwood or any other fashionable Brazil wood.