Live Auction 1359IMPORTANT ENGLISH FURNITURE
AN ITALIAN SPECIMEN MARBLE AND MOSIAC TABLE TOP
Lot 75

AN ITALIAN SPECIMEN MARBLE AND MOSIAC TABLE TOP

PROBABLY ROMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN SPECIMEN MARBLE AND MOSIAC TABLE TOP
PROBABLY ROMAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Now fitted as a low table, centered by a micro-mosaic panel after the antique and surrounded by one hundred and eighty-two cubes of various marbles within a siena marble border, numbered in red paint to the ends, originally a top for a console table with and consequently one long side without facing, now on a brushed brass base
18in. (46cm.) high, 62½in. (158cm.) long, 31½in. (80cm.) wide

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1989, lot 154.

Specialist note

This top is close in design, excluding the central mosaic panel, to a top reputedly acquired on the Grand Tour by Edward, Viscount Lascelles for Harewood House, Hanover Square and by descent to Harewood House, Yorkshire, and sold, The Humphrey Whitbread Collection; Christie's, London, 5 April 2001, lot 412. This table was also numbered, although to the top of the edge, once relating to a key of the various marbles.