These plinth-supported pier-tables, with marble tops borne by Jove's eagles, reflect the fashion for 'Roman' furniture enriched with bronze/bronzed animals or chimerae promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807 and George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808. Similar bronzed 'eagle' tables were introduced to the dining-room at Clandon Park by Thomas Onslow, 2nd Earl of Onslow (d. 1827) following his inheritance of the estate in 1814 (C. Hussey, English Country Houses; Early Georgian 1715-1760, London, 1955, p. 101, fig. 148).