The design of these stools is strongly influenced by contemporaneous French models and thus it likely originates from an area of the Italian peninsula where French cultural input was particularly welcome. The Duchy of Savoy, being a direct neighbor of France, was among the states most open to these cultural influences. The highly detailed design executed in fine and jewel-like carving on these stools is typical to carved furniture in Piedmont in the first half of the eighteenth century. The feathery and elaborate modeling is similar to the two-dimensional inlay found on Pietro Piffetti's cabinets a few decades later. The legs of these sgabelli is also similar in shape to those with scrolling capitals used in many console tables in Piedmont at the time, see E. Quaglino, Il Mobile Piemontese, Milan, 1966, p. 71. For comparable stools in the Palazzo Reale, Turin, with similar stretchers carved with volutes and central finials, see V. Viale, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, exh. cat., Vol. III, Turin, 1963, Tav. 182, fig. b and Tav. 183, fig. a.