The combination of rococo and neoclassical motifs on this console, relates to a number of designs executed by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry (1698-1777). Made an Architecte de Premier Classe in 1751 he quickly grew to prominence. In 1752, the duc D'Orleans hired d'Ivry to redesign his apartments at the Palais-Royal. Designs for four consoles in the Salle de Jeu du Palais-Royal in 1752-1753, which relate to the console offered here, are preserved in engravings of Diderot's Encylopédie of 1762 and are illustrated in B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France, 1987, p. 156. Though unsigned, these pieces are attributed to Nicolas Heurtaut or Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot.

A console of similar design, formerly in the collection of the Barons of Hastings, Melton Constable, is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Malibu, California (illustrated in C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993, p. 61., no. 86.) Other examples include a pair from the collection of the 6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby's, 18-20 May 1977, lot 102 and one formerly with Bernard Steinitz, Paris (illustrated in B. Pallot, op.cit., p. 154). The shells and inscrolled feet on this table relate it most closely to the work of Heurtaut.