The design of this table derives from an engraved plate in the Nouveaux Desseins de Pieds de Tables by French carver and designer Nicolas Pineau (1684–1754) published between 1732 and 1739. Pineau’s designs were plagiarized by Batty and Thomas Langley for some of the plates in their 1740 publication The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, and this cabinet stand corresponds to plate CXLIII, dated 1739, which appears with a group of ten designs for “Frames for Marble Tables in Rooms of State, …. after the French manner.” A copy of Langley’s engraving was included in Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16 May – 30 September 1984 (no. 10c, together with the Pineau design from which it was taken, lettered Mariette exudit, and numbered 5). A table in the Victoria and Albert Museum [W.-1961] is based on the same design (see: D. Fitz-Gerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, no. 42). A further table of this design, also with an associated marble top and featuring the same Vitruvian scroll frieze, is in the collection of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat House. A table designed by Johann Paul Egell following Pineau’s engraving is in Schloss Regensburg (see: H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. II, Munich, 1970, fig. 605). It came originally from the Palais Thurn und Taxis, Frankfurt, and illustrates the widespread influence of Pineau’s published work throughout Europe. For a George II table almost identical to that designed by Egell, see Christie’s, London, 27 June 1985, lot 155.