18th century The top of standard mitre, mortise and tenon frame, tongue-and-grooved floating three-board panel construction supported by three dovetailed transverse stretchers underneath, two with exposed tenons, the short rails of the frame top with further exposed tenons, the edge of the frame moulding downward and inward and ending in a banded edge, all resting on a recessed waist and beaded-edged straight apron, all supported on square-section legs beaded to the inner edge terminating in well-drawn hoof feet, joined by humpback-shaped stretchers mortised and tenoned into the legs and connected to the apron on each side by two shou-character struts. 89cm (35in) square x 86cm (33 14/16in) high.