The design of these Chinoiserie-decorated tables is inspired by a pair of mirrors embellished with pagodas, Greek-key bands and pendant bells, framing similarly-decorated mirror plates. They were sold from the collection of Frederick P. Victoria and son, Christie's, New York, 27 May 1999, lot 106. These exotic designs were championed in Italy in particular by Ferdinando IV, King of the two Sicilies, after his arrival in Palermo in 1798 when he commissioned his Palazzina Cinese, and the Duke of Aosta, who decorated his Castello di Rivoli near Turin in a very similar scheme in 1795.