Very similar to the pair of pier tables on the east side of the Drawing Room, this table was designed to exactly match the dimensions of the pier glass on the south side of the same room. Its decorative scheme is very similar but not exactly the same as the matching pair due to its different dimensions. Like the pair, it was commissioned at the same time, around 1789-91 by Ninian and Penelope Home as part of the overall decorative scheme of the Drawing Room. The couple sought Chippendale’s advice for the selection of the hand-painted wallpaper, the colouring of the ceiling, and other components.

Once these items were made for the House and delivered, the couple and their good friends, Alexander Campbell and Thomas Townsend, also enslavers, used this furniture prior to returning to Grenada and ultimately to their deaths a few short years later. Campbell and Ninian Home died on 8^th April 1795 during Fedon’s Uprising after being captured by the freedom fighters and Penelope died of natural causes at Paraclete, Campbell’s plantation which they had previously shared ownership of.

This table was conserved by Fergus Purdy in the autumn of 2022 with funding from Museums Galleries Scotland. Multiple loose veneers were carefully reattached and poor old repairs were treated and made good.