These golden pedestals, with Grecian plinth-supports, fluted columnar corners and acanthus-enriched cornice, are designed in the early 19th Century antique manner. A pattern for a related pedestal surmounted by a Grecian urn on its stepped cornice featured in Henry Whitaker's Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825 (E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 553). It is possible that these pedestals were supplied for the columnar-screened library that was designed by the London builder John Field for Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol in the East Wing of Ickworth, Suffolk in the 1820s. The pedestals harmonise with its Italian statuary marble chimneypiece which has a richly sculpted frieze supported on paired Doric-fluted columns. Ickworth's celebrated early 19th Century furniture, now much dispersed, was executed by Messrs. Banting, France and Co., of Pall Mall, who in 1830 supplied the Marquess with scagliola columns for some of his political busts and were also employed at this period in the furnishing of George IV's Windsor Castle (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 38).