This frame pattern, with cabriole-hock legs terminating in involuted trusses, was chosen by Sarah Churchill, 1st Duchess of Marlborough (d.1744) for marble-topped tables. They were executed by the cabinet-maker James Moore (d.1726) for the window piers of the 'Great Bay' apartment in the family wing at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The design for the latter tables, which were originally brown-painted with gilt-enrichments and displayed the Churchill cypher on their aprons, may have been conceived in 1716 under the direction of the architect John Vanburgh, and before the furnishing of the house was entirely entrusted to Moore, cabinet-maker to King George I (I. Cadwell, 'Moore at Blenheim', Antique Collector, September 1991, pp. 80-83, and P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Walnut, London, 1908, p. 238 fig. 219).