The daughter of Count and Countess Peritti, Countess Bianca Tam married Tam Gian Ciau, a major in the Chinese army, in 1938. At the dissolution of her marriage, isolated within China in the midst of the Second World War, Bianca Tam became a spy for the Japanese. At the end of the war she was pardoned by Pope Pius XII and returned to Italy in 1947.

A similar giltwood stool from Lucca, c. 1825 but without the stretcher is in the Galleria Uffizi and illustrated in A. Massinella, Il Mobile Toscano, 1993, p.98, no. 175.