The cross-banded brass-inlaid border along the top edge of this table matches the top on a pair of rosewood card-tables in this collection, lot 43, that were made by Duncan Phyfe for the Bronson Family of Charleston, South Carolina. Other features that relate this table to the shop or school of Phyfe are the turned vase-shaped shaft with reeded drum, incised reeded legs, and lion's-paw carved feet. A labeled Phyfe sewing table in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, for example, exhibits identical incised legs with carved feet, and a dining table made by Phyfe for William Gaston of New Jersey is embellished with reeded drums (see Comstock, American Furniture (Exton, PA, 1962), fig. 566; Montgomery, American Furniture (New York, 1966), fig. 409)

A nearly identical table is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum (Comstock, American Furniture (Exton, PA, 1962), fig. 590). A related table also with crossbanded edge, drum and reeded legs and paw feet is illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. VII, 1983, P4868, p. 1737. A card table and breakfast table made by Phyfe for James Lefferts Brinckerhoff in 1816 also exhibit reeded drums (Sloane, "A Duncan Phyfe Bill And The Furniture It Documents" Antiques 131, no. 5 (May, 1987): 1106-1113, figs. 4, 6). For other tables with reeded drums associated with Phyfe, see, American Antiques, vol. VI, 1979, P4127, p. 1613; vol. IX, 1989, P6163, p. 2540; McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency (New York, 1939), figs. 9, 285, 287.