This sideboard-table can be attributed to George Oakley (d.1840), who worked in partnership with with various cabinet-makers including Henry Kettle, George Shackleton and John Evans, producing furniture in the fashionable Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp.658-660). His extensive enterprise earned the accolades of the Royal Family as noted after their visit in 1799: 'the ROYAL FAMILY, with the PRINCE and PRINCESS OF ORANGE did Mr. OAKLEY the honour of vieiwng his Printed Furniture Warehouse in New Bond Street; when her MAJESTY, the Duke and Duchess of YORK, and the PRINCESSES, &c., highly approved of the splendid variety which has justly attracted the notice of the fashionable world' (Morning Chronicle). This reputation spread abroad where an 1804 newspaper article published in Weimar, Germany stated: 'all people with taste buy their furniture at Oakley's'.

A pair of side cabinets of the same form and ornamentation was supplied by Oakley as part of a major commission supplied to Charles Madryll Cheere at Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire in 1810 (illustrated in M. Jourdain, 'English Empire Furniture made by George Oakley', Architectural Review, December 1920). A sideboard and sidetable attributed to his firm, and apparently of the same design, are in the Ballroom of the Mansion house, described as a 'capital mahogany sideboard supported on a stand, reeded legs and carved and bronzed paw feet, with antique bronze heads'.

This sideboard table is virtually identical to one sold in these Rooms, 13 December 2018, lot 161. Two further sideboards attributed to Oakley were sold at Christie's New York, the first from the collection of Mrs Sydell Ballon and the Estate of Frederick Ballon, 9 April 2003, lot 27, for $33,460. The second from the collection of Michael S. Smith, sold, 26 September 2018, lot 129 for $13,750. A further pair of consoles is illustrated in Partridge's Summer Exhibition, 1986, pp. 78-79, no. 30.