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AN ITALIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID EBONY, EBONISED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY TABLE TOP ON AN EBONIZED ENGLISH BASE

ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI AND ANGELO FALCINI, MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID EBONY, EBONISED AND FLORAL MARQUETRY TABLE TOP ON AN EBONIZED ENGLISH BASE
Attributed to Luigi and Angelo Falcini, mid-19th Century
The octagonal top with a central star profusely inlaid with scrolling flowers and foliage issuing from a central flowerhead, surrounded by eight shaped triangular panels filled with conforming inlay, with a foliate banded moulded edge, the square base with a plane frieze above a shaped apron, on four spirally turned legs joined by a spirally turned X-shaped stretcher centred by a square platform inlaid with foliage, on bun feet with sunk ceramic castors, the castors stamped 'COPES PATENT'
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 45 in. (114.5 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This splendid table top can be attributed to Luigi and Angelo Falcini, Florentine specalists and restorers of marquetry furniture active 1830-1860. Much of their marquetry recalled the 17th century Florentine work associated with the Flemish-born Leonardo van der Vinne, who had played an active role in the Medici's Opificio delle Pietre Dure (d. 1713).

Examples of their work can be found in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Their work is discussed in A. Gonzales Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, La Toscana e Italia Settentrionale, Milan, 1986, Vol I. pp. 181-186. Further examples by them are illustrated in Gonzalez Palacios, vol. II. pp. 208-212.

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