These card-tables were commisioned for the bedroom appartments at Woburn by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (d.1839) and are en suite with the four in oak supplied for his fishing cottage at Endsleigh (lots 856-8). Its columnar and reed-capped legs reflect the robust antique fashion promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Unusually for Bullock, these tables are executed not in indigenous woods but in mahogany, which was the timber employed by Bullock on the New Longwood House, St. Helena commission for Napoleon.