The columnar supports and reed enrichments relate to the George IV antique style illustrated in George Smith's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. The growing artistic eclecticism of the period is reflected in the fact that the plinth shares a number of features in common with a Jacobean-style table, manufactured by A.Pugin of Covent Garden, circa. 1830 (see: C.Wainwright, The Romantic Interior, London, 1987, p. 186).