A similar Regency side table with a specimen marble top was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 16 November 1989, lot 118 and another was also sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 25 February 1993, lot 73. These tables with scrolling supports and plinth bases derive from Roman prototypes such as the 'antique seat of parian marble' illustrated by Charles Heathcote Tatham in his Etchings Representing the Best Examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture, 1799, pl. 76. Unlike the above mentioned examples, the specimen marble top of the present lot is not designed in a grid form and the pine base displays a neo-Gothic influence popularised by A.W.N Pugin (d.1852), rather than deriving from a Roman design.