This remarkable table is a tour de force of English specimen tops and was probably originally mounted on brackets as a console. The lozenge pattern top is inlaid with a wonderful array of figured Blue John specimens and ‘once-a-week’ fossilised limestones, so called in reference to the fact that the workers at the Derbyshire quarry were paid on a weekly basis. Interestingly, the design for the base directly relates to a group of tables located in the vestibule of Duff House, in Banff, Aberdeenshire.