The table's richly inlaid top, with its flowered border framing a festive trophy of ancient arms, symbolises The Triumph of Peace through the laying aside of weapons. The latter are overlaid by a pearled shield recalling exotic parade armour; while the crescent-emblazoned pennants allude to Christianity's triumph in 1492. These symbols also featured together with flower-filled vases and the arms of Don Pedro Tellez Giron, Duke of Osuna (d. 1642), on a table that was manufactured in the early 17th Century in the Grand Duke of Tuscany's Uffizi workshops. The Duke's arms were wreathed by the Order of the Golden Fleece and celebrated his election in 1611 as Viceroy of Portugal (see A. Giusti, Splendori di Pietre Dure, Florence 1988, fig. 32). This table's hermed feet are fluted, in the late 18th Century antique manner. The marble-encrusted frieze, embellished with festive masks of bacchic rams and satyrs of 17th Century pattern, combined with Empire motifs such as wreaths and insects, typifies the antiquarian approach of the early 19th Century