This chenet is after the model supplied to Madame de Pompadour at the château de Bellevue and now in the Musée du Louvre, illustrated in Dreyfus, Musée du Louvre: Les Objets d'Art du XVIIIe Siècle, Epoque Louis XV, Paris, n.d., pl. 3). A further pair is in the Wrightsman Collection (see F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection II: Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets, New York, 1966, 192 A & B). As Watson notes, another pair are reputedly signed by the goldsmith François-Thomas Germain (flourished from 1748-91), although the signature may well be that of the bronzier Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (maître in 1748)

It is conceivable that this model may be identifiable with 'Un petit feu doré d'or moulu composé de figures chinoises avec ses garnitures de pelles et pincettes, 120 l.' sold by the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux on 23 August 1756 to Mme. la marquise de la Ferrièrre