This unusual table can be identified as the one reproduced by Loukmirski (op. cit.) in his photographic record of the furniture and interiors of the palaces at Tsarkoe Selo. Most of these original furnishings were either sold under Stalin in the 1930's or destroyed by the Nazis during their occupancy in World World II. It can now be added to the relatively small group of documented 18th century Russian furniture from the reign of Catherine the Great.

The delicate neoclassical arabesques point to an attribution to the cabinetmaker-serf, Matuei Veretennikov. Veretennikof was a serf who belonged to Count Alexander Soltikov and produced a small group of marquetry furniture, notable a pair of card tables circa 1797 now in the Historical Museum, Moscow, which he signed. The top of this table clearly relates to that of the tops of these card tables (reproduced in The Art of Marquetry in Eighteenth Century Russia, 1989, figs. 190, 191), as well as certain features of the two famous roll-top desks, one now in the Catherine Palace, Tsarkoe Selo, the other at Pavlovsk Palace (reproduced op. cit) figs. 173-189). The handles are even identical to those found on the interior drawers of the example at Tsarkoe Selo (fig. 182.)