The table-top's scallop-edged tray, whose inner raised ring creates a central quintafoil and outer decafoil compartments, corresponds in form to early 18th century delft trays and with its brass inlay in the French manner relates to that of a table attributed to Frederick Hinds (Hints or Hintz), cabinet-maker of Newport Street, whose 1738 advertisement in the Daily Post noted 'Tea-Tables, Tea chests, Tea-Boards etc. all curiously inlaid with fine Figures of Brass and Mother of Pearl' (see C. Gilbert, John Channon and other brass-inlaid Furniture, London, 1993, figs. 148-150)