A George III carved mahogany serving table, the finely figured fiddleback mahogany and ebony-strung top above a leaf-carved and fluted frieze, interspaced with detailed patera and centred by a tablet of scrolling foliate decoration; standing on six square tapering fluted legs headed by guilloche collars and terminating in shaped block feet.

This table and the pair photographed at Stapleford Park were likely supplied to Robert Sherard, 4^th Earl of Harborough (1719-1799) in circa 1775. It was under the 4^th Earl that the Jacobean mansion underwent extensive remodelling and extension in the 1770s and the gardens planned by Capability Brown in 1775, and it is probable that the present table and its pair were supplied as part of the improvements.

The exquisite plasterwork depicting the death of Patroclus to the ceiling of the Entrance Hall is one of the few surviving elements of the decoration overseen by the 4^th Earl and dates to 1776. The scrolling foliate motifs of this plasterwork are stylistically identical to the central tablet on the present table, the scrolling leaf decoration of which also matches the leaf carving work to the ceiling of the Ante room, suggesting the present table and ceiling decoration were designed together as part of an interior scheme in the neoclassical style that was fashionable in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.