This sideboard is designed in the early 19th Century Graeco-roman manner with Grecian pediment and lion-monopodia emerging from acanthus-wrapped volutes in the manner of a table illustrated in G. Smith, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1862, pl. CXXIV. A related table with the same reed-enriched and ogival cornice and similar legs, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 17 June 1993, lot 142.