A micromosaic, pietra dura, specimen marble and oak centre table

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A micromosaic, pietra dura, specimen marble and oak centre table
Second half 19th Century
The circular top centred with Pliny's Doves, after the Antique, surrounded by a radiating design of imbricated specimen marble petals, including malachite, lapis lazuli, granito orbicolare, Siena, porphyry and others, within a geometrical border, on a plain frieze supported by a ring-turned splaying shaft resting on an egg-and-dart moulding, above a gadrooned stepped base, the marble top Italian, the base English
28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) high; 34½ in. (87.7 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

The Italian slab, inlaid with a micro-mosaic of varie-coloured marbles encloses a medallion of Pliny's Doves, after the celebrated antiquity in the Vatican Museum. The pattern corresponds to that of a table sold from the Collection of Mrs D. Hart, sold in these rooms, 4 December 1969, lot 66. See note to previous lot.

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