This console is derived from a number of designs executed by the architect Pierre Contant D'Ivry (1698-1777). D'Ivry in 1752 was hired by the Duc D'Orleans for the redecoration of his apartments at the Palais-Royal. At the same time he was hired to design the new palace for the Baron de Bernstorff in Copenhagen. Other similar consoles were sold from the collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby's House Sale, 18-20 May 1977, vol. I, lot 102; from the collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Sotheby's New York, 5 May 1984, lot 219; from the Patino Collection, Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 64; from the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold in these Rooms, 23 March 1991, lot 921.