Lot Essay
The retail label lists some of the various materials in which the brothers worked, including Sicilian marbles, suggesting that the marbles for the present table top may well have been quarried locally.
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SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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An italian specimen marble table top
Second half 19th century
Of circular outline and veneered with geometric designs, with paper retail label to the reverse for the Palermo retailers Francesco e Filippo Lopes Raffi
20½in. (52cm.) diameter
Second half 19th century
Of circular outline and veneered with geometric designs, with paper retail label to the reverse for the Palermo retailers Francesco e Filippo Lopes Raffi
20½in. (52cm.) diameter