THE SCAGLIOLA TOP ATTRIBUTED TO PIETRO DELLA VALLE, FLORENCE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ON A RESTAURATION MAHOGANY BASE

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AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLA CIRCULAR TABLE TOP
THE SCAGLIOLA TOP ATTRIBUTED TO PIETRO DELLA VALLE, FLORENCE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ON A RESTAURATION MAHOGANY BASE
The circular top decorated with an Italian landscape, within an beaded border, on a baluster stem carved with acanthus leaves, above a thripartite base and pawfeet, carved with acanthus and a lotus leaf, on casters
78 cm. high x 68 cm. diam.

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Please note that the height should read 78 cm. and the diameter should read 68 cm. and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

Lot Essay

This charming table top decorated with a pastoral scene is exemplary of the work of the della Valle brothers. Pietro and his brother Giuseppe della Valle were Italy's foremost scagliola artists of the mid-19th century. The brothers received silver and bronze medals in the exibitions in Florence in 1839, 1841 and 1844 and one of their tables was honored in the Great Exibition in London in 1851. A similar scagliola top with a similar border with beads and attributed to Pietro Della Valle, is illustrated in E. Colle, Il Mobile Impero in Italia, Arredi E Decorazioni d'Interni dal 1800 al 1843, London 2000, nr.73 and in A.M. Massinelli, Scagliola, L'arte della pietra di lina, Rome 1997, ill. 49-49b.

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