Cesare Roccheggiani

Early 19th century Italian marquetry writing table with five drawers. Various timbers in the marquetry including kingwood, walnut, box and tulip. This piece has a fairly untouched co...

We are delighted to offer for sale this important 19th century gilt brass Dolphin base French marble centre table A truly sublime table, the base is oak with solid gilt brass Dol...

Stunning 19th century Italian Scagliola top rectangular center table with carved polychrome apron and legs. The top details organic flower, birds and...

ITALIAN CENTER TABLE began 19th Century in walnut richly inlaid in various wood essences plan depicting Saint George and the dragon Sorrento h 75 x 90 cm good conditions

19th century Italian carved walnut table. Stunning 19th century Italian carved walnut table or center table. This versatile rustic hand car...

IMPORTANT SORRENTINO TABLE (Sorrento-Naples) 19th Century octagonal in shape, inlaid in various essences, decorated with inlays depicting dancers in ...

A rare and fine quality 19th century Sorrento inlaid centre table, signed; Almerico Gargiulo. The central inlaid and painted panel depicting lovers dan...

A Grand Tour Centre Table The Top Attributed to Cesare Roccheggiani The carved gilt wood base in the manner of George Smith having four monopedia supports, each depicting leopards heads atop, with paw feet below, and conjoined by an incurved stretcher base having carved stiff leaf decoration, and raised on castors; the circular platform of marmoro nero, with a stylised Greek Key border within double Malachite reserves; the central micromosaic roundel depicts The Vatican from St Peter's Square, surrounded by eight separate roundels of The Pantheon of the Gods; the smallest of Rome's seven hills, the Capitoline; The Mauseoleum of Hadrian on the Tiber; The Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; The Colosseum; the Temple of Vesta; The Arch of Titus, and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella. English / Italian, Circa 1875 The attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani is supported by Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, former curator of the Gilbert Collection and Honorary Curator for the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Provenance: From a Noble family, the 6th Earl of Macclesfield (1811-1896) then by descent. The base is similar in design to designs published by George Smith's A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808. The taste for monopedia supports was of fashion, in the Regency period and models of such were displayed in the 1851 Great Exhibition. The Macclesfield coat of arms depicts a shield with a central chevron and three leopard's faces. Views of Roman monuments was the most popular theme used by mosaicists in Rome in the beginning of the 19th century, supplying the flow of wealthy Grand tourists from Northern Europe. From small gold boxes...

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

Important 19th century Florentine Granito Verde Della Sedia Di San Lorenzo and specimen marble inlaid ebonized parcel gilt centre table. The powerful centre is set with quarter veneered and incredibly rare ancient Egyptian stone...

IMPORTANT LARGE 19th Century EXTENDABLE ITALIAN ART DECO TABLE in mahogany wood with friezes carved with marsh plant motifs h 79 x 183 x 120 cm good conditions

Incredible rare 19th century Italian Grand Tour scagliola center table. The classical inspired table features the Greek key decorated lintel top supported by a tryptich of monop...