The sideboard-table, conceived in the early 19th Century 'Palladian' manner, has Venus-shell badges and Bacchic lion-monopodia incorporated in voluted and acanthus-wrapped trusses. The python-slaying lions relate to animal pictures of the period, such as the painting of a lion and lioness dated 1841 formerly at Mere Hall, Cheshire, (the painting was sold by the Executors of the late Mrs. Helen Langford-Brooke, Mere Hall, Cheshire, Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lot 273). However they also form part of heraldic crests.