AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLA TABLE TOP

LIVORNO, CIRCA 1830, ON A LATER ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONIZED BASE

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AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLA TABLE TOP
LIVORNO, CIRCA 1830, ON A LATER ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONIZED BASE
The circular top with central scene of pastoral figures on a shoreline, with classical ruins and a wooded landscape against a mountainous background, within a pearled and oak leaf border, inscribed in pencil to underside Fabbrica Mel...Livorno...Toscana
31 in. (79 cm.) high, 33 in. (84 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This tabletop is very closely related to a group of circular tabletops depicting pastoral idylls within a pearled and/or oak-leaf border, made in Tuscany in the first half of the 19th century, now in the Bianchi Collection, Florence, and illustrated in A.M. Massinelli, Scagliola: L'arte della pietra di luna, Rome, 1997, pp. 70-73, pl. 49-51.

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