Mahogany pedestal library table, the rectangular top with inverted sides, lined with red leather, edged with gilt metal gadrooning; eight frieze drawers panelled with foliate gilt metal borders and mounted with pierced foliate handles; corner pedestals panelled and with cupboards.

Quidenham Hall was purchased from the Holland family by George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (1724-1772) in 1762 following his capture of Havana in the same year, the final action of the Seven Years' War, the Prize money allowing him to purchase the Norfolk estate. His son William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle was married twice: his first wife the Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, after bearing eleven children, died aged 41 in 1817. In 1822 he married Charlotte Hunloke and this union may have occasioned architectural improvements at Quidenham, which were carried out by Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772-1842). It is possible that new furniture for the house was provided by the architect's brother's cabinet-making firm, by then known as Bailey and Sanders (Thomas Tatham had died in Brighton in 1818).

Charles Heathcote Tatham was associated with this library table in an article by Christopher Proudfoot and David Watkin, 'The Furniture of Charles Heathcote Tatham', Country Life, 8 June 1972, p, 1483; see also C. Wainwright 'The Furnishing of the Royal Library, Windsor', Connoisseur, June 1977, pp. 104-109.