An Empire giltwood stool, after a design by Percier and Fontaine, circa 1810

Between 1804 and 1814, the imperial furniture repository commissioned several suites of folders from the joiners Jacob-Desmalter and Pierre-Benoit Marcion, based on designs by the court's official architects, Percier and Fontaine. There are slight differences in the ornamentation of these suites.
A suite of folders with similar ornamentation supplied by Jacob-Desmalter is preserved at the Grand Trianon in Versailles (VMB 1032.1), while other series were delivered to Saint-Cloud, Compiègne and for Queen Hortense. For her residence on the rue Cerutti around 1804-1806, Queen Hortense commissioned a set of furniture, part of which was sold at Sotheby's Paris, Doha/Paris, un décor Princier, on 30 June 2021, lot 404. Other furniture, including folding furniture, was delivered for the same residence. This delivery, as well as the absence of an imperial palace inventory number for our example, might suggest a provenance of Queen Hortense.
Other examples of folders with similar decorations were sold at Sotheby's, New York on 18 October 2016, Lot 150 and Christie's London, 9 December 2004, Lot 2.