The inlaid patera and line-and-bellflower motif of this pembroke table relate it to two labelled sideboards by William Whitehead. Both the Fulton Family sideboard and companion knifeboxes, illustrated and discussed in Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, no. 29, p. 1254-1255, as well as a labelled sideboard in a private collection in Greenlaw, "American Furniture in Houston Collections, "The Magazine Antiques, vol. CXIV, no. 3, Sept. 1979, p. 553 share these inlay patterns. The 796 New York prices book showed the cost of a basic pembroke table form to be #1-1, with the cost of differentiation from the standard model such as an oval top, conforming bowed apron, string inlay to ends, legs and top - all of which are found on the example illustrated here - totalling an additional 18s-17d. Similar forms to the example illustrated here are known to have been made by other New York cabinetmakers including a pembroke table by John Dikeman between 1794 and 1796, a sideboard by Elbert Anderson made between 1789 and 1796, and a labelled pairs of pembrokes by George Shipley and John Dikeman (Barquist, american Tables and Looking Glasses, (New Haven, 1992), p. 149). For two pembroke tables with related inlay see Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, no. 29, p. 1386, P4394; see also Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses, (New Haven, 1992), p. 149-50, figs. 61, 62.