The rectangular rosso onyx and portor marble banded top with rounded forecorners over a conforming frame, the frieze richly carved with C-scrolls and waterleaves and centered by a Bacchic mask and hung with pierced garlands of grapes and vines, raised on cabriole legs with acanthus carved knees over oval leaf ruffled cabochons, terminating on inward scrolled feet; the interior corner blocks stamped with Roman numerals.

Note:
This elaborately carved side table is related stylistically to a number of side or pier tables with Bacchic motifs dating to the mid 18th century. It is unclear who originated this style of table, which most likely was meant to furnish a dining room, although William Linnell is recorded supplying a mahogany card table with a solid plain frieze and a fat-cheeked Bacchic mask and grape vine swags to Richard Hoare for Barn Elms in 1740 (now in the possession of The National Trust, Stourhead). The architect John Vardy designed a much more substantial Bacchic side table for the dining room at Spencer House in 1758 that bears more similarities in the carving of the mask to the present table, but the supports are fully carved seated winged lions rather than cabriole legs. For a more closely related table see Sotheby's, New York, October 21, 2005, lot 14.