This sideboard-slab, with Etruscan-black and palm-wrapped border, has an ormolu-enriched frame and an Egyptian bas-relief frieze-tablet dispaying the protective winged Ureus disc emblematic of the sun-god Re. The paired and plinth-supported Roman legs comprise ring-reed 'fasces' with bacchic lion-paws. It typifies the French style promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807 and also relates to later sideboard and pier-table patterns issued in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts' 1810, pl. 17 and 1818, pl. 98. The reed-clustered legs with lion-masks and paws also appear on a pattern with Egyptian figures published in George Smith's Collection of Designs, 1808, pl. 92. Lion-masks also feature on a related sideboard advertised by Matsell Antiques Ltd. in the Antique Collector, November 1988. Another was sold Sotheby's New York, 13 December 1986, lot 225.
The same pattern of bas-relief features on an Egyptian-hermed book-cabinet illustrated F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, fig. 225