The ealiest published engraving for a reversible-topped games-table, known as an 'occasional table', featured in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. However, patterns for such tables, including one with a recessed backgammon board, appeared on a furniture pattern-sheet issued by John Potter in the mid-18th Century. Potter's sheet showed several exotic tables of types that seem to have been rare if not unique in the mid-18th Century but which became more common later in the century. A unique pop-up breakfast table from a design on the pattern-sheet was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 16 July 1992, lot 133 and is now at Temple Newsam House. It is illustrated in C.Gilbert and T.Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, New Haven, 1993, p.84, fig.88 and the pattern-sheet, ibid., p.19, pl.11