This table may have been made for export to the Isle of Deshima in the Bay of Nagaski. Deshima, also known as Dejima, was a man-made island constructed in Nagasaki harbor by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) in the mid-1630s. It was the only place in Japan where Westerners, first the Portuguese and then the Dutch, were allowed to reside from the 1630s to 1856 under the Japanese edict of sakoku, or 'closing of the country'. For further nineteenth-century Nagasaki export center tables, see the two examples from the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 434 and 20 October 2023, lot 541; and an example decorated with a large vase, sold Christie's, London. 6 April 2000, lot 254. Examples similarly mounted with small porcelain plaques and metalwork include a low table sold Rooms as Portraits: Michael S. Smith, A Tale of Two Cities at Christie's, New York, 26 September 2018, lot 209; a shodana bookcase sold Christie's, London, 3 April 2012, lot 551; and two cabinets sold Christie's, London, 13 September 2005, lot 276 and 24 January 2002, lot 150.