The elegantly serpentined form of this galleried urn or vase stand may derive in part from the type of Chinese stand illustrated by William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757, as well as from the type of porcelain-mounted Louis XV table à café manufactured by ébénistes such as BVRB (d. 1765). Various Scandinavian cabinet-makers helped introduce the Louis XV style to London during the early part of George III's reign, and this stand relates in form to that of a toilet-tablet manufactured by the Swedish cabinet-maker John Christian Linning, who worked in Tottenham Court Road with his half-brother Christopher Fuhrlohg in the 1760's and 1770's (see M. Lagerquist, Rokokomobler, Stockholm, 1949, fig. 121