19th Century Specimen Marble and Giltwood Centre Table

A stylish early 19th century Italian centre table. The simulated marble top with shaped moulded edge and acanthus carved frieze, raised on a shapely giltwood triform base with exagge...

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 A stylish early C19th Italian centre table, wonderfully decorated in red lacquer with gilt chinoiserie highlighted scene in the form of people, buildings and foliage. Raised on car...

A highly important Regency mahogany and ebony centre table of superior quality, spectacular scale and featuring Thomas Hope`s Neo-Classical influences. The circular top constructed o...

An exceptionally rare and fine 19th century marble top centre table of circu-lar form, the stunning micro mosaic marble top with c...

Rare 19th century mahogany specimen marble top centre table of circular form, the stunning marble top comprising of beautiful examples of Carrera White, Sienna, Nero Portoro Black, P...

A superb and most decorative Italian 19th century giltwood and specimen marble side/center table. The circular table is raised by a striking and exquisitely carved giltwood base with...

A stunning French 19th century Régence st. giltwood and white Carrara marble rectangular center table. The table is raised by handsome paw feet below impressive cabriole legs decorat...

We are delighted to offer for sale this large and very important carved giltwood marble topped impressive centre table circa 19th century A 19th century French carved giltwood centre table in the Louis XIV taste, surmounted by a rectangular panel of breche violette marble, within a foliate border, the cushion frieze decorated with foliage and with shaped and pierced acanthus and paterae aprons, on openwork square section tapered legs with acanthus leaf husk and paterae ornament, united by curved acanthus scroll stretchers with central finial The condition is really quite exquisite, there doesn’t seem to be any losses or issue with the carving anywhere, the marble is free from chips, there may be stress fractures as is often the case with old thick marble tables...

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...