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One of a pair of tables designed en suite with pier glasses with frames carved in festoons of ribbon bound laurel, in the French 'antique' style associated with Sir William Chambers (d. 1796), architect to King George III. Among Chambers' drawings in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, is an elegant design for a pier glass inscribed 'for Adderbury' the Oxfordshire house bought in 1766 by the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, who was also employing Chambers at 20 Grosvenor Square. The table's flowered ribbon fret frieze is carved with flowered tablets above the tapering herm and columnar legs, which are embellished with pendant husk sprays. The paired front legs relate to contemporary sideboard tables. The frame is attributed to Mesrs. Ince and Mayhew, cabinetmakers of Golden Square, Soho. The early eighteenth-century Sicilian-jasper slabs are framed by moulded brass borders enriched with sections of ribbon guilloche and acanthus foliage, and formed part of the architect Henry Flitcroft's furnishings of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu's house in Whitehall.