AN ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
AN ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN ROSEWOOD, IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
Mid-19th Century
Inlaid overall with boxwood lines and with scrolling floral foliage. the rectangular moulded top with circular inset panel of a bird surrounded by foliage, on a spreading columnar support, with rectangular plinth and hairy hoof feet
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 45¼ in. (115 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The richly scrolling foliate marquetry of this table, within borders of repeated flowerheads, executed in various woods, ivory and mother-of-pearl, relates it to the work of the Florentine cabinet-makers Angiolo and Luigi Falcini, who were active in the second quarter of the 19th century. Two similar tables appear in a watercolour of the ballroom of the Villa Demidoff at San Donato, while another with octagonal top but with closely related marquetry is illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: Roma e Il Regno delle Due Sicilie, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 50, fig. 74.

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