Lot 246
246
A FLORENTINE IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE attributed to Fratelli Falcini and inlaid overall with a band of flowering foliage, the banded octagonal top with moulded foliate edge and on spreading baluster shaft and spreading octagonal base with moulded edge, on later bun feet, the support on the underside of the top replaced, second quarter 19th Century

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A FLORENTINE IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE attributed to Fratelli Falcini and inlaid overall with a band of flowering foliage, the banded octagonal top with moulded foliate edge and on spreading baluster shaft and spreading octagonal base with moulded edge, on later bun feet, the support on the underside of the top replaced, second quarter 19th Century
33½in. (85cm.) diam.; 30¾in. (78cm.) high
Literature
A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto Il Granducato Di Toscana E Gli Stalti Settentrionali, Milan, 1984, Tomo II, p. 206, fig. 389
A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto Roma E il Regno delle due Sicile, Milan, 1986, Tomo II, p. 50, fig. 74

Lot Essay

Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios has identified this table with the oeuvre of the celebrated Florentine artisans Angiolo and Luigi Falcini (Il Tempio del Gusto Roma E'il Regno delle due Sicile, Milan, 1986, Tomo II, p. 23). Two closely related octagonal tables, supplied for the Sala da ballo of the Villa Demidoff at San Donato, Florence, are clearly visible in Fortuné de Fournier's engraving of that room of 1841

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