Pietra Dura Tabletop, "Bird and Butterfly" Marbles and Hard Stones, 20th Century

The centre has been reserved with the black background to highlight even more the border decorated with geometric elements framed in shields and simple forms. The technique, very sim...

Tabletop hard stones. Tabletop made of hard carved and polished stones in a marquetry composition inspired, both in the technique and in the elements, in Italian works of the Renaiss...

Marble board and hard stones in console format. Empire style. The shape of the board makes it more suitable for use on a console, while the simple decoration based on geometric shape...

Inspired by Italian models from the 16th and 17th centuries. The technique, similar to the inlay in wood, uses colored marbles and hard stones on a background. All of these material...

Rectangular table top. Marble and hard stones. Rectangular board made with a technique inspired by Ancient Rome very similar to marquetry, which uses marbles and other hard stones i...

Rectangular tabletop with marbles and hard stones. Inspired by Italian models of the XVI-XVII centuries. The vein of a particular stone has been highlighted by placing it in the cent...

This marble tabletop features a centrally placed pictorial panel executed in Pietra Dura. The panel is surrounded by a frame composed of inlaid purple veined marble that is encompass...

Italian Pietra Dura round tabletop with Florentine mosaic inlay decorations executed using blue lapis lazuli, turquoise and other semiprecious stones...

Important Palatial & Rare 19th Century Pietra Dura Giltwood Centre Table. This magnificent rectangular table incorporates an exquisitely inlaid Florentine Pietra Dura work of art. The truly incredibly and colourful hardstone specimens have been meticulously chosen & inlaid to form the most gorgeous floral display. It is amongst the finest of its type. This masterpiece is displayed on its original carved work of sculptural art, a baluster stem with acanthus leaves and raised on four acanthus leaf scrolled feet, the gilding, burnished in parts to perfection and highlighting a palatial majesty. The art of creating images by cutting hardstones and fitting them into a jigsaw of shapes, flowered under the Florentine Medici and is known as Pietra Dura. The technique of Pietra Dura is highly prized and widely used and can be found in settings ranging from antique jewellery boxes to the walls of the Taj Mahal. The development of the technique, often called ‘painting in stone’ was one of the many achievements of the Florentine Renaissance. Like many other forms of antique decorative art...

Italian pietra dura table 19th century rectangular shape, with wooden caved based, four fluted and turned legs, classical frieze and stepped borde...

Pietra Dura Empire table. Malachite, amethyst, lapis lazuli, citrine and sienna marble inlaid in white marble. Wood is Tineo.

Early 20th-century barque Revival-style wood carved base with pietra-dura top colorful inlaid stones depicting flying but butterflies.