In its sense of movement and overall form, with foliate-wrapped S-scroll legs, pierced symmetrical apron and pieds en rouleau, this table displays the influence of the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry. D'Ivry is perhaps most celebrated for his designs for the Palais Bernstorff in Copenhagen, which were executed by the menuisier Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot circa 1755, and this commission included related consoles grafted with the first stirrings of New-Classicism (illustrated in B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth-Century France, Paris, 1989, pp.152-166).

Related consoles in this taste include one, sold anonymously, Rieunier & Bailly-Pommery, Paris, 1 April 1998, lot 332 (FF.360,000), and another, sold from the Akram Ojjeh collection, Christie's Monaco, 11/12 December 1999, lot 43 (FF.230,000).