These two tables are thought to have originally been a single pier table that was later cut in half to form two corner tables or encoineurs. At the time these tables were made, French styles in furniture and furnishings were in vogue in America. The maker, Charles-Honoré Lannuier, a French émigré, brought with him an excellent knowledge of current fashions and contacts in the Parish trades who supplied him with superior decorative elements for his furniture. The use of swans as caryatids (figural supports for the table top) is relatively rare in Lannuier's work.