Lot 148
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A NORTH ITALIAN FRUITWOOD, WALNUT AND MARQUETRY TRIPOD TABLE with hinged waved circular tilt-top inlaid with hunters seated with their dogs within a border of cartouches inlaid with scenes of travellers flanked and divided by foliate scrolls, on spirally-twisted shaft, scrolled legs and scrolled feet, mid-19th Century

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A NORTH ITALIAN FRUITWOOD, WALNUT AND MARQUETRY TRIPOD TABLE with hinged waved circular tilt-top inlaid with hunters seated with their dogs within a border of cartouches inlaid with scenes of travellers flanked and divided by foliate scrolls, on spirally-twisted shaft, scrolled legs and scrolled feet, mid-19th Century
30in. (76cm.) diam.; 29½in. (79cm.) high

Lot Essay

Elaborate marquetry furniture with rustic scenes set on an ebony ground of this type, was a speciality of Sorrento, and not only proved popular amongst tourists visiting 'the land of Tasso' but was also exhibited at various International Exhibitions such as that held at Vienna in 1873. See A. Fiorentino, l'Arte della tarsia a Sorrento, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris 7 May - 7 June 1987, pp.29 and 41

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