The distinctive pastel colour scheme and chinoiserie motifs link this unusual console table to a group of painted chinoiserie furniture now attributed to the architect and designer Giuseppe Levati (1739-1828). Levati supplied furnishings as part of an extensive scheme of redecoration commissioned by the aristocratic patron, Count Ercole Silva for his Villa Silva, Cimisello Balsamo, Milan in the 1780's. A painted console table and a divano, both displaying the same curious mixture of chinoiserie and neoclassic elements, are now thought to have formed part of the furnishings supplied by Levati to Villa Silva (see A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, La Toscana e L'Italia Settentrionale, vol. I, p.256, pls. XVI and XLII). A polychrome-decorated console table and mirror related to this group were sold Sotheby's London, 9 December 1994, lot 267.