These herm-legged and elegantly inlaid card-tables are designed in the George III 'antique' style of the 1770's, and each top is inlaid with a 'poetic' oval medallion of golden satinwood with feathered sunflower, which derives from the sun-god Apollo's temple at Palmyra, as illustrated in Robert Woods, ÿRuins of almyr 1753. Robert Adam (d.1792) had recommended the furnishing of Drawing Room window-piers with such tables in the mid 1760s (see H.Hayward, William and John Linnell, London, 1980 p. 143) and tables with related ornament featured in Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1794, 3rd edn., plates 63 & 66. The medallion with flower-ribbon border also relates to the work of the cabinet-maker William Moore (d.1815), who worked for Messrs Ince & Mayhew of Golden Square, London before establishing his Dublin practice in the early 1780s (see D.Fitzgerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969 no.108)