A ROMAN SPECIMEN MARBLE ROSSO AFRICANO, PORTOR, ROSSO LEVANTO, BROCATELLO AND GIALLO ANTICO TABLE TOP ON A LATER BASE

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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE LADY SERENA JAMES, REMOVED FROM ST. NICHOLAS, RICHMOND, NORTH YORKSHIRE, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 33-34)

A ROMAN SPECIMEN MARBLE ROSSO AFRICANO, PORTOR, ROSSO LEVANTO, BROCATELLO AND GIALLO ANTICO TABLE TOP ON A LATER BASE

THE TOP LATE 16TH CENTURY, THE BASE 19TH CENTURY

細節

A ROMAN SPECIMEN MARBLE ROSSO AFRICANO, PORTOR, ROSSO LEVANTO, BROCATELLO AND GIALLO ANTICO TABLE TOP ON A LATER BASE
The top late 16th century, the base 19th Century
The rectangular moulded top centred by an oval within scrolling borders, framed by shaped cartouches and cut-cornered angles, on a pierced square spreading base headed by scrolls and a moulded ring, above a scrolling base and a lotus-edged square plinth
31½ in. (77 cm) high; 30 in. (75 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

來源

Possibly acquired by John, Lord Lumley (d. 1609), Nonesuch Palace.
Thence by descent.

注意事項

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拍場告示

This table top is closely related to an early 17th Century example in the S. Teresa degli Study in Naples of similar unusually small size and is therefore probably also Neapolitan (see: A.M. Giusti, Pietre Dure, 1992, p. 225, fig. 82). Contrary to the catalogue description, the base is probably of the same date as the top, ie. late 16th early 17th Century, while only the lower 2 in. high plinth is later.

拍品專文

The spare geometric design of this striking table top, which is of unusually small size, with scrolling heart-shaped motifs framing a central oval panel of rosso levanto, dates it to the second half of the 16th century. The same general scheme, but more elaborately conceived, is seen on a table top in the Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Florence, dated to before 1588 (illustrated A-M Giusti, Pietre Dure: Hardstone in Furniture and Decorations, London, 1992, p. 12) and another in the Museo degli Argenti, Florence, dated post 1565 (illustrated in A-M Giusti ed., Splendori di Pietre Dure, exh. cat., Florence, 1989, p. 88, cat. 8).

The provenance of this superb table top raises the intriguing possibility that it might have been among the fourteen 'tables [table tops] of marble' listed in 1590 in the possession of John Lord Lumley (d. 1609), who had served in 1566 as Queen Elizabeth I's ambassador to the Medici court at Florence.

Ten years previously Lord Lumley had inherited the richly decorated Surrey Palace of Nonesuch from his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, and the marbles featured in an inventory that was drawn up in the year that Nonesuch was handed back into the possession of Queen Elizabeth, when certain items were moved to Lumley Castle, Durham (see G. Jackson-Stops, 'Riches of a Renaissance Courtier', Country Life, 5 June 1986; and L. Cust, 'The Lumley Inventories', Walpole Society JOurnal, 1917-1918).