The drawing-room table is wreathed by a reeded Etruscan-black ribbon and supported on a reed-enriched pillar with palm-flowered and Grecian-scroll claw. Its brown-oak veneer, combined with its antique form and French-fashion golden ribbon-bands of brass, corresponds to the early 19th Century fashion adopted by George Bullock (d. 1818) of London and Liverpool and relates to furniture supplied in 1815 under the direction of the Prince Regent for Napoleon's use on St. Helena (C. Wainwright et al, George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker, London, 1988, p. 81, no. 19).