The tables have taper-columned legs fretted with palm-like leaves, while their tops are parquetried in 'Roman' mosaic fashion with a 'Greek-key' ribbon-guilloche, en suite with their frieze inlay, and this bands tablets of quarter-cut veneer, whose golden figuring creates the illusion of concentric square coffering.

Such tables were placed in drawing-room window-piers, and designed en suite with the room's marble mantlepiece or its Vitruvian Palladian achitectural ornament. The 'Greek' ribbon-fret was included in the 'Decorations for Cabinet-works', issued in B. Langley's Treasury of Designs, 1740 (pl. XCVIII) and appears on a number of card-tables including those provided in 1757 to the 1st Earl of Leicester for Holkham Hall, Norfolk, by Benjamin Goodison (c. 1700-1767) and invoiced at £12 10 0 'for ye Gallery at Holkham' (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 371). Goodison, recognized as a major name in mid-18th century cabinet-making, entered Royal service in 1727 and was also cabinet-maker to Frederick, Prince of Wales.

A similar single card-table with Greek-key frieze, attributed to Goodison, previously at Encombe, Dorset, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 April 1999, lot 60 (£43,300).