The bold and structural design of this console table seems to point to an architectural conception. It was probably conceived for integration into a panelled or stuccoed room of an Italian palazzo decorated in the latest Etruscan taste of the early 19th century. The life-like quality of the sculpture of the zoomorphic supports and delicate applied foliate decoration to the stem suggests a transalpine production, even though its ornamental vocabulary – namely, its distinctive winged sphinxes – can be found in furniture produced in various European countries. Several pieces by the influential Parisian furniture-maker Jacob-Desmalter, for example, employ the same winged female Sphinx device, such as a table at the chateau de la Malmaison, where two female sphinxes are placed at the same uncharacteristic 45 degree angle around a central column supporting a demi-lune table Italian scagliola table top (illustrated in C. Pincemaille, I. Tamisier-Vétois & A. Lefébure, Malmaison, palais d'une impératrice, 2017, p 71.) Italian consoles of this period with winged sphinx supports at a 45 degree angle are also known, such as a pair of giltwood tables produced in Rome circa 1795 from the Palazzo Braschi (illustrated in Gonzales- Palacios, Arredi e ornament alla corte di Roma, 2004, pp. 222-223).