This exotic drawing-room table with ribbon-inlay of Indian calamander, reeded ebony border, etruscan-scrolled supports and brass palm-wrapped feet, is designed in the early 19th Century 'antique' style after the French manner. Known at the period as a 'loo table' and named after the popular card-game 'lanterloo', it is likely to have been supplied en suite with card-tables such as those sold anonymously, Sotheby's London 14 June 1985, lot 166. The fashion for calamander furniture, enriched with 'or-molu' is discussed in Rudolph Ackermann's, Repository of Arts for August 1813 (see: P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture, London, 1984, p. 88)
Its reed-gadrooned border corresponds to that of the celebrated 'Anglesey' desk attributed to Marsh and Tatham of Mount Street, Mayfair and sold by the executors of the late Sir John Musker, Bt., in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 125