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This all-purpose table is an example of a new category of relatively light furniture. These pieces of furniture with varied forms and uses were a response to the dictates of a new sociability, combined with a desire for intimacy. The marquetry decoration evokes the English-style gardens dear to Marie-Antoinette, such as those at the Petit Trianon, designed by Richard Mique in the late 1770s.