The tea-table top, of padouk edged with a colourful ribbon of 'lace' and other woods, is framed in the French manner with a golden ribbon of moulded and indent-covered brass. While the stand's hollowed frieze, concealing a 'silver' drawer in the end, is likewise edged by a golden ribbon and its elegantly serpentined legs terminate in club feet. The stand corresponds with that of a French-fashioned medal-cabinet illustrated in a 1730s trade-advertisement print of Thomas Potter (d. 1782). The latter, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and attributed to the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker John Channon (d. 1779), is discussed together with a group of related tea-tables and tea-caddies in C. Gilbert and T. Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, 1730-1760, New Haven and London, 1993.