This small table carries the stamp of Pierre Garnier, who became a master cabinet-maker in Paris in 1742, but it has had a chequered career since it left his workshop. Its current appearance was probably created in London in about 1872–75, when the table and drawer unit that he had made was given new, and probably more decorative, legs and was fitted with a porcelain plaque made in the French royal factory at Sèvres in 1759. From the 1820s there was a growing and lucrative trade in London in French 18th-century furniture, and workshops soon became adept at creating new and more elaborate pieces, using elements of original furniture and adding both new and antique elements. John Jones, who bequeathed a large collection of furniture, including this piece, to the Museum, was particularly interested in porcelain-mounted furniture but, like many 19th-century collectors, was sometimes taken in by made-up pieces.