According to a pencil inscription to the underside, the present table once formed part of the collection of the Dukes of Rutland at Cheveley Park until it was 'sold March 1845' (fig.1). Tantilisingly, no record of this sale has emerged to date. John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland, transformed Cheveley Park into a thoroughbred centre of note, breeding four Classic winners, until the estate was eventually sold in 1892.
A virtually identical table, lacking the gadrooned apron but almost certainly the pair to the present table, was sold Christie's London, Important English Furniture, 29 November 2001, lot 95.