Belgian Black Marble Center Tables

A stunning vintage Italian Empire Grand Tour style specimen marble 'pietra dura' table. Topped with a spectacular exhibition quality round specimen marble slab, featuring a large va...

Exceptional vintage Italian Pietra Dura Sienna marble table supported by a squared base. The inlaid geometric patterned top is decorated with vario...

Fine Quality French Directoire Gilt Bronze & Black Marble Gueridon Center Table. French, early 20th century. 23.5" round top (extending arms ma...

Beautiful wood and brass side table designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno. The coffee table has a round curved plywood top, brass frame reaching to a black marble base from Belgium. ...

Black cube shape marble base brass stretchers square glass top coffee table. Cantilever design base Italian coffee table.

Table or pedestal table with a mosaic top, iron base, all made in the old fashioned way, in an antique way, the mosaics are highlighted, unique piece. 60s work The outline of the mos...

Rare 19th Century Florentine Sicilian Hardstone Agate Inlaid Black Marble Centre Table. The lovely Pietra Dura piece, inlaid with the most...

Table de salle à manger ovale, en plaquage de marbre noir et incrustations en laiton. Attribuée à Jean-Claude Mahey, France, 1979. Longueur: 2...

A very handsome French 19th century 1st Empire period crouch mahogany center table. The table is raised on circular ormolu feet, with hidden casters, below a triangular concave sided...

A stunning and extremely high quality Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. ormolu and black Belgian marble center table. The rectangular shaped table is raised by handsome square t...

A rare grand tour table Possibly by Cesare Roccheggiani The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of thousands of coloured glass tesserae; a central roundel depicting The Vatican from St Peter's Square within a malachite border, surrounded by a border including four cartouches in polychrome reserves of Roman views including the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; the Temple of Vesta, and the Pantheon, all interspersed and linked by voluminous bouquets of fruit and flowers representing the 4 seasons; the outer stylised border inlaid with deep blue tesserae evocative of exotic Lapis Lazuli. Supported on a finely carved Italian giltwood base, its design incorporating baskets of fruit and floral garlands echoing the 4 seasons theme of the table. Italian, Circa 1875 Other table tops inspired by this design, although not as finely executed, can be found in several Russian collections (which house the greatest micromosaics) including Vorontsov Palace, Muranovo House, as well as the imperial State Hermitage Museum. A tabletop with profuse floral micromosaic work was commissioned by the Belgian Royal family (sold Sotheby's, 2003). The floral garlands, the magnificent quality of the inlay and the use of distinct curved tesserae support the present attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani. According to Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, the world expert on micro mosaics, curved tesserae pieces were used in foliage, grass and animal fur by only the very best mosaicists such as Roccheggiani. Evidence of curved pieces, for instance, is observed in the foreground of the Temple of Vesta cartouche, to name but one observation of the master's hand. The scion of a dynasty of mosaicists, Roccheggiani was perhaps the most successful mosaicist in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He is doubtless related to Lorenzo Roccheggiani, a late eighteenth-century master mosaicist at the Vatican, whose work included the altarpiece, Crucifixion of St. Peter after Guido Reni. Nicolo Roccheggiani, possibly Lorenzo's son, was also a principle artist at the Vatican, involved in executing the famous tabletop Achilles Shield...

!9th century Regency Pietra Dura specimen marble and figural bronze gueridon center table. Italian Pietra Dura center medallion on specimen marble top seated on a french patinated br...

19th century carved parcel-gilt polychrome painted center table in the taste of Ancient Egypt, circa 1867-1870. The top of the table is an original black Belgian marble top. Supplied to Khedive Ismail Pacha for his Gezireh palace in Cairo, for the opening of the Suez Canal and commissioning the opera Aida by the composer Verdi . Until 1998 this table was located in Villa Draneht Pasha in Oggebbio at Lake Maggiore in Italy, when the Peter Zervudachi estate was liquidated. He was Paul Dranehts grandson, the first owner of the villa. During the 19th century, Draneht served under four Egyptian ottoman viceroys, starting with Muhammad Ali Pasha, who patronized him to study medicine in Paris. Paul Draneht became a very loyal servant to all Viceroys and they thanked him for his efforts with titles and properties. His career accelerated under the last viceroy he served, Khedive Ismail Pasha...