This tray belongs to the service of the ancient 'Vasella' of the Royal Palace and was intended for the luxury of the table. On it, in fact, no food was prepared but decorative elements such as baskets of flowers, sugared almonds and candelabra were placed which, reflecting in the mirrors, gave greater brightness to the table, with a scenographic effect of considerable splendor.

The dessert-plateau, in five modular pieces, is supported by pairs of lion's paw feet and, again under the base, by invisible swiveling wheels for easy movement on the table. A laurel frieze that runs along the entire perimeter is interrupted by facing figures of pairs of bacchantes in the act of placing bunches of grapes in cups and by pairs of ephebes pouring wine into jugs.

Of Empire style, it has close formal analogies with another centerpiece exhibited at the Marmottan Museum in Paris, made by Thomire and datable to 1810-1814, which belonged to Luciano Bonaparte.