The firm would have reached an international audience not only through the multiple locations of its retail outlets, but also through its participation in major World Fairs such as the London International Exhibition, 1862 and the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867.

Several versions of the present table are known, with a variety of parquetry tops.

Other recorded furniture by the firm includes a pair of side chairs, identical to the one illustrated in the Art Journal, op. cit., p. 52, top left, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and on show at their outpost Boddelwyddan, North Wales.

A third chair, one from a pair, has recently been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

A tea-poy (Art Journal, op. cit., p. 260, top left) was offered at Gorringe’s, 9-11 September 2003, lot 1326; a chair (Art Journal, op. cit., p.90, bottom left) was offered at Greenslade Hunt on 30 January 1997, lot 1232, and a desk, like one exhibited at the London International Exhibition, 1862, was sold at Woolley & Wallis, 3 October 2000, lot 130.