Lot 217
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N ITALIAN SIMULATED PORPHYRY AND PIETRA DURA TABLE TOP
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N ITALIAN SIMULATED PORPHYRY AND PIETRA DURA TABLE TOP

THE PIETRA DURA PLACQUES 18TH CENTURY, THE SURROUND AND BASE MODERN

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N ITALIAN SIMULATED PORPHYRY AND PIETRA DURA TABLE TOP
The pietra dura placques 18th Century, the surround and base modern
The circular top inset with nine pietra dure panels, six depicting oriental figures, one with a floral splay, one with a house in a landscape and one with a bird, on ring-turned slightly-splayed legs
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) diameter
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Lot Essay

The pietra dura panels in the border of this table top, with figures in folk and exotic dress, are closely related to those which are incorporated in a number of Louis XVI items of furniture made by the celebrated ébiste Adam Weisweiler (maître in 1778). These include a cabinet in the Royal collection in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace and a secretaire previously with Dalva Brothers, New York, which is illustrated in P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, p. 69.

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