The exotic panther support on this table exactly match those on a pair of day-beds supplied in 1805 by Gillows of London to Colonel Hughes of Kinmel Park, Denbighshire. One settee is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.38-1930) and its pair was sold by the Executors of the late H.T.S.Upcher, Esq., Christie's house sale, 22-23 October 1986, lot 151. The contents of Kinmel were sold in 1930 and the twelve chairs that accompanied the pair of day-beds were last recorded on board an ocean liner. Gillows obviously supplied a related suite of this type; a pair of side cabinets with these panthers were sold from Savoy Croft, Ayr, in July 1991 and are illustrated in Country Life, 4 July 1991, p.120.
The lion-monopodiae reflect the 'antique' taste encouraged by Charles Heathcote Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture drawn from the originals in Rome...1794-6, 1801. This pattern with Grecian palmette necklace is given in George Smith's Collection of Designs, 1803, p.187.
At the time of the original Gillow commission Kinmel PArk was being recontructed under the supervision of Samuel Wyatt (d.1807). Wyatt had a particularly close relationship with Gillow and it seems probable that he was responsible for the original design.