The card-table, with cut corners on paired columnar legs, is designed in the George III antique manner of the 1780s that was popularised by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. The top is decorated in grisaille with an ivy-festooned medallion of dancing youths celebrating the Feast of Bacchus, while a border garland comprises roses, passion flowers and honey-suckle. In addition beribboned ivy festoons its frieze, while its legs comprise entwined flowers and palm-capped columns as featured in a satinwood and japanned pier-table pattern in the 1793 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1996, fig. 10).