The cut-cornered top, supported on elegant Grecian-scrolled legs, is painted with a trompe l'oeuil marble-mosaic that is centred by a medallion of the Capitoline Museum's celebrated Hadrianic mosaic, known as 'Pliny's Doves'. A related work-table, with painted top and husk-festooned legs, was supplied for Osterley Park, Middlesex in the late 18th Century (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture London, 1982, p. 169, cat. no. T/9). Another closely related pair, with trompe l'oeil marble tops, is likely to have formed part of the late 18th Century furnishings introduced to Ham House, Surrey by the 5th Earl of Dysart (C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 337).