This bronzed tripod tea-table or guéridon is conceived as a Roman altar dedicated to the moon-goddess Diana. With its antique monopodiae it relates to a table illustrated in Le Tableau Général du Goût, 1797 (U. Leben, Molitor, London, 1992, fig. 169); and a perfume-burner in the Herculaneum manner illustrated in Percier and Fontaine's, Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801 (pl. XXXIII). Its golden medallioned top of Siena marble is incorporated in a bronze frame that is wreathed by golden bas-reliefs emblematical of Night and Day and represented by the sun-god Apollo's mask alternating with his sister Diana's crescent badge. Diana-masks in triumphal palm-enriched cartouches accompanied by stars embellish its bacchic goat-hoofed monopodiae, that are wreathed by sun-rayed ribbons and tied by a marble stretcher with pearled girdle. Similar feet appear on a console-table design illustrated in U. Leben's Bernard Molitor, Luxembourg, 1995, p. 46. Related bacchic lion monopodiae feature on a breakfast-table in the Egyptian manner, that was executed by 1800 by the Parisian-based ébéniste Bernard Molitor (d. 1833) (fig. 36).

A related tripod table, lacking mounts and undertier, bears the label of Antoine-Pierre Bonnemain and his address in the rue Grenelle-Saint-Honoré, where he was established in 1830 (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1984, p.92)