This ormolu-enriched table, embellished with Roman foliage and inlaid with studious figures emblematical of the Sciences, is copied from one supplied in 1771 for Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble by Jean-Henri Riesener (maître 1768; d. 1806), and is now on display at the Petit Trianon, Versailles. The table was reproduced in the 19th and early 20th centuries by such celebrated ébénistes as Alfred Beurdeley and, as is the case for the present lot, François Linke.
Please see lot 56 for a note on Linke.