Each pier-table top, designed in the neo-classical manner to compliment Robert Adam's Drawing Room architecture at Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent, forms an oval when reflected in an accompanying mirror, and is inlaid with a golden-satinwood sunburst wreathed by a flowered guilloche and banded by a satinwood rim. The frieze inlay comprises a double-link chain holding libation-paterae, whose 'Apollo' sunflower embellishment is taken from Robert Wood's engraving of the sun-god's temple at Palmyra, published in 1753. The tapering 'term' legs are inlaid with trompe l'oeil flutes, in the 'antique' manner and terminate in concave-sided 'altar'-plinths inlaid with water-leaves. Whilst these tables do not appear in the Chippendale bll, no other payments to a major cabinet-maker at this time are recorded in the family accounts at Hoare's Bank