These tables are inspired by a design by the décorateur-dessinateur, Richard de La Lalonde (circa 1735-1808) for a console de salon. The design was engraved by Foin circa 1780 and is illustrated in Die Französischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, p. 402, no. 80. A related pair of consoles was sold Sotheby's New York, 4 May 1984, lot 69 and another is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, 1993, p. 62, no. 88.