The design of this gueridon is inspired by a work-table with cassolette by Jacob Frères, which derived from the famous Pompeian tripod in the Naples Archaeological Museum, and was published by C. Percier and P. F. L. Fontaine, Receuil de Décorations Intérieures...1812, pl. 23 (reproduced above). It is inscribed Petite Table de travail, renfermant une Cassolette, exécutée pour Me. M. à Paris. The Percier table is more elaborately mounted than this or the other known examples. One stamped by Jacob Frères is in the Château de Fontainebleau (illustrated in G. Janneau, Les Meubles, vol. III, pl. 28); another identical to the Fontainebleau example from the collection of Baron de Redé was sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, 25-26 May 1975, lot 253