The present table was designed by Paul Dupré-Lafon as a stand to support a seventeenth-century chest in his own collection. The x-form stretcher is surmounted by a bronze sculpture of a sphinx by Alberto Giacometti, a small but critical flourish which animates the table's neoclassical rigor.

The sphinx has been authenticated by the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti and is registered in the Alberto Giacometti Database, the online catalogue of authentic works by the artist, as number AGD 3412.