The form of the present table, with its re-entrant cornered top and straight square legs, derives from Chinese Ming period prototypes. A related table at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, similarly with acanthus-bulb feet and a bas-relief cut-gesso top is attributed to James Moore the Elder (c. 1670-1726) (R. Edwards, M. Jordain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers c. 1700-1800, London, 1955, p. 136, fig. 33). Another side table likewise with a gilt-gesso top, and attributed to Moore, is in the collection of The Duke of Grafton at Euston Hall, Suffolk (T. Murdoch, 'The King's Cabinet-Maker: The Giltwood Furniture of James Moore the Elder', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, no. 123, 2003, p. 409, fig. 4). A gilt-gesso table, originally one of a pair, in the Royal Collection and bearing the crowned cypher of George I, is inscribed 'MOORE' on the table top (A. Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Woodbridge, 2009, plate 5:5). Moore had premises over against the Golden Bottle in Shorts Gardens’, St. Giles-in-the-Fields and became cabinet-maker to George I and the Prince and Princess of Wales, later George II, the commissions for whom he was in partnership with John Gumley from 1714.