William H. Rogers (1825-1873) was the son of the celebrated woodcarver William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875). He was also a talented designer in various media. This eccentric design is typical of the way that early Victorians cheerfully combined different elements in an unhistorical manner. The trilobate (clover-leaf shaped) base of the plinth is a Gothic shape, but it was not used in this way in medieval furniture. The winged devil-headed grotesques with one foot are known as monopodes. They may have been derived partly from medieval manuscript decorations and partly from classical lion monopode tables. Here they have been given an alarming three-dimensional form. Essentially this is a classical table converted to a Gothic plinth for a sculpture or something similar.