diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CachingCatalog.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CachingCatalog.java
index 1043e3e7205c..cc859686a074 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CachingCatalog.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CachingCatalog.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.Namespace;
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier;
 import org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.AlreadyExistsException;
+import org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.NoSuchTableException;
 import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -145,22 +146,26 @@ public Table loadTable(TableIdentifier ident) {
     }
 
     if (MetadataTableUtils.hasMetadataTableName(canonicalized)) {
-      TableIdentifier originTableIdentifier =
-          TableIdentifier.of(canonicalized.namespace().levels());
-      Table originTable = tableCache.get(originTableIdentifier, catalog::loadTable);
-
-      // share TableOperations instance of origin table for all metadata tables, so that metadata
-      // table instances are
-      // also refreshed as well when origin table instance is refreshed.
-      if (originTable instanceof HasTableOperations) {
-        TableOperations ops = ((HasTableOperations) originTable).operations();
-        MetadataTableType type = MetadataTableType.from(canonicalized.name());
-
-        Table metadataTable =
-            MetadataTableUtils.createMetadataTableInstance(
-                ops, catalog.name(), originTableIdentifier, canonicalized, type);
-        tableCache.put(canonicalized, metadataTable);
-        return metadataTable;
+      try {
+        TableIdentifier originTableIdentifier =
+            TableIdentifier.of(canonicalized.namespace().levels());
+        Table originTable = tableCache.get(originTableIdentifier, catalog::loadTable);
+
+        // share TableOperations instance of origin table for all metadata tables, so that metadata
+        // table instances are
+        // also refreshed as well when origin table instance is refreshed.
+        if (originTable instanceof HasTableOperations) {
+          TableOperations ops = ((HasTableOperations) originTable).operations();
+          MetadataTableType type = MetadataTableType.from(canonicalized.name());
+
+          Table metadataTable =
+              MetadataTableUtils.createMetadataTableInstance(
+                  ops, catalog.name(), originTableIdentifier, canonicalized, type);
+          tableCache.put(canonicalized, metadataTable);
+          return metadataTable;
+        }
+      } catch (NoSuchTableException e) {
+        // it's not a metadata table so ignore exception and load as a normal table
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/spark/v3.5/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/sql/TestCachingTableWithMetaTableName.java b/spark/v3.5/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/sql/TestCachingTableWithMetaTableName.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5023db5b18c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spark/v3.5/spark/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/sql/TestCachingTableWithMetaTableName.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.iceberg.spark.sql;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Parameter;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Parameters;
+import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import org.apache.iceberg.spark.CatalogTestBase;
+import org.apache.iceberg.spark.SparkCatalogConfig;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.TestTemplate;
+
+public class TestCachingTableWithMetaTableName extends CatalogTestBase {
+  private static final String TABLE_NAME = "history";
+
+  @Parameter(index = 3)
+  private int cacheExpirationInterval;
+
+  @Parameters(
+      name = "catalogName = {0}, implementation = {1}, config = {2}, cacheExpirationInterval = {3}")
+  protected static Object[][] parameters() {
+    return new Object[][] {
+      {
+        SparkCatalogConfig.SPARK.catalogName(),
+        SparkCatalogConfig.SPARK.implementation(),
+        ImmutableMap.of(
+            "type", "hive",
+            "default-namespace", "default",
+            "parquet-enabled", "true",
+            "cache-enabled", "true"),
+        1
+      },
+      {
+        SparkCatalogConfig.SPARK.catalogName(),
+        SparkCatalogConfig.SPARK.implementation(),
+        ImmutableMap.of(
+            "type", "hive",
+            "default-namespace", "default",
+            "parquet-enabled", "true",
+            "cache-enabled", "true"),
+        -1
+      }
+    };
+  }
+
+  @BeforeEach
+  public void createTables() {
+    spark
+        .conf()
+        .set(
+            "spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog.cache.expiration-interval-ms",
+            cacheExpirationInterval);
+    sql("CREATE TABLE %s (id bigint, data string, float float) USING iceberg", TABLE_NAME);
+  }
+
+  @AfterEach
+  public void removeTables() {
+    sql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS %s", TABLE_NAME);
+  }
+
+  @TestTemplate
+  public void testLoadTableAfterCacheExpires() throws InterruptedException {
+    Thread.sleep(10); // wait for cache to expire
+    sql("INSERT INTO %s VALUES (1, 'a', 1.0), (2, 'b', 2.0), (3, 'c', float('NaN'))", TABLE_NAME);
+    List<Object[]> expected =
+        ImmutableList.of(row(1L, "a", 1.0F), row(2L, "b", 2.0F), row(3L, "c", Float.NaN));
+
+    assertEquals("Should return all expected rows", expected, sql("SELECT * FROM %s", TABLE_NAME));
+  }
+}