This guéridon with its stepped cabriole legs and plain use of mahogany, relates to the work of Canabas, maître in 1766, such as a small tripod table illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 145, fig. D. A further related guéridon was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 7 December 1995, lot 84.