With its festive drapery of the Nemean lion-pelt worn by the hero Hercules, the table frieze derives from a drawing of circa 1740, by the celebrated carver Matthias Lock (d. 1765). The drawing is now in the collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Matthias Lock, of Long Acre, London, was one of the outstanding carvers and designers in the rococo style, and was acclaimed by the upholder James Cullen as 'reputed the best draftsman in that way that had ever been in England'. The first of his several published works was issued in 1740, he collaborated with Henry Copland in 1752, and then apparently worked in some form of partnership with Thomas Chippendale. Many of Lock's designs are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London as well as in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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