The dining-table is likely to have been commissioned for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire by Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet (d.1765). With its mahogany oval hinged-flap top and columnar pad-footed legs it relates to the fashionable parlour-table of the 1720s, such as furnished the antiquarian William Stukeley's Lincolnshire house (see Christie's London Furniture catalogue, 16 September 1999, p. 15). The style remained popular in the following decades as can be seen from the late 1730s trade-sheet issued by the Holborn cabinet-maker Thomas Potter (see C. Gilbert, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760, London, 1993, fig. 11). An Inventory and Valuation of Nostell was made by H. Phillips in 1806, following the death of Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet in October 1805, and this is more likely to be the 'Old oval dining table', listed in The Steward's Room, rather than the 'Mahogany oval table', listed in the Library (North East Corner).