A gilt-bronze mounted mahogany guéridon table attributed to Adam Weisweiler Louis XVI, late 18th Century

with a later circular Egyptian green porphyry top with a gilt-bronze border on three inverted reeded baluster legs with gilt-bronze milled collars, joined by a pierced stretcher on tapering legs, terminating in inverted milled leaf-cast flattened bun feet, on casters, with an 18th century label beneath the top with a partly illegible inscription in ink possibly  (...) Balby; marble top restored; originally with a lifting circular mahogany tray top and central pillar; central part of stretcher altered

A very similar guéridon has been sold at Sotheby's, New York, on the 20^th November 2003, lot 261. Both of these tables belong to a group of guéridon or tea tables including game boards (sometimes several of them  were superimposed) with elaborate stretchers, (see P. Lemmonier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, pp. 92-99). The uniqueness of this table rests in the originality of the balustraded legs decorated by ribbing. 

The Marquis de Caumont-LaForce, father of the future Madame de Balbi (or Balby according to a possible spelling in the eighteenth century) occupied at Court the office of First gentleman of the Bedchamber of  the Comte de Provence and brother of Louis XVI. On 6th May 1776, Madame de Balbi married Marie François Armand de Balbi, 1752-1835, the grandson of a doge of Genoa. The Countess of Balbi very quickly became the muse if not the mistress of the Count of Provence and was installed in all the royal residences, and she was also was offered the use of  a pavilion built by Chalgrin on the edge of the park of Versailles. At the time of the Revolution, Madame de Balbi took refuge in Coblenz where she reigned  almost as a queen. Back in France in 1802,  she firstly lived in Montauban and then moved to Paris and finally to Versailles where she held salon throughout the Restoration. She died at Versailles in 1842. It is interesting to notice that Madame de Balbi owed the sum of 1122 pounds to the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre during the revolution (ANMC, XXXVI, 633 ; mentioned  by P. Lemonnier, op.cit.)