Sir Henry Innes Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1932) married the wealthy New York heiress, Mary Goelet (d. 1937) in 1903. She was responsible for many improvements at Floors Castle and augmented the collections of 18th Century furniture and porcelain.

The sideboard-table relates to 'Marble Table' patterns published in the 'Roman' manner of the 1730s. Its serpentined and volute-scrolled trusses wrapped by husk-issuing Roman foliage and terminating in bacchic lion-paws correspond in particular to Batty Langley's 1739 table-frame pattern in The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, London, 1740 (pl. CLV). Langley illustrated an Arcadian deity mask tied by Roman foliage to the table frieze, whereas this Roxburghe table displays the Nature deity's triumphal 'shell' badge, which is antique fretted in the Louis Quatorze manner; while more scallop shells embellsih the sides of the table.

This handsome table may have been acquired for their London house in Carlton House Terrace following the marriage in 1903 of Sir Henry Innes Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1932) and Mary Goelet (d. 1937). This table was amongst the collection of antique furniture assembled at Carlton House Terrace, whose decoration was carried out with assitance from Messrs. Lenygon and Morant, the celebrated Burlington Street firm of decorators and antique dealers. In 1931 the table featured in the two Country Life articles on the collection written by the furniture historian Margaret Jourdain, and was later added to the 1954 revised edition of P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture.