The ram's heads on three monopodiae, terminating in pieds-de- bîche on a concave-sided plinth can be seen in an engraving by J. J. Filipart, published in 1765 entitled La vertueuse Athénienne. It was origninally taken from a painting by Joseph-Marie Vien, executed in 1763 and called Prêtesse qui brûle de l'encens sur un trépied. Eberts, who published the engraving with Madame Geoffrin, produced his own tripod table a decade later, naming it Athénienne, after Filipart's curious title. (S. Erikson, Early Neo-classicism in France p. 385, pl. 370). A similar giltwood Athenienne but with a pierced dome cover was sold at Etude Tajan, 22 May 1995, lot 31