A William IV demi-lune console table

the associated  Baltic white marble top with a gilt-bronze beaded mount to the edge, inlaid with a ribbon border of agate and green granite around a central green hardstone panel, on cast-iron leopard's head monopodia

Georg Himmelheber in Cast-Iron Furniture, 1996, pl. 211, illustrates a console table with identical front monopodia supports, dating it to 1835.

Rapid technological advances made at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century in the production of cast iron made it a popular material for all manner of items including furniture. Only a few great artists however supplied the foundries that sprang up with drawings and recognised the potential of this material. In the early part of the 19th century, William Bullock, the brother of George, was known to have used the material. The design of these supports  also reflects the popular taste promoted by the designs of Thomas Hope, and George Smith in the early 19th century.