Pietra Dura or Hard Stones Tabletop

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...

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...

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...

Circular tabletop in marbles and hard stones. Inspired by Italian models of the XVI-XVII centuries. In the centre of the board, surrounded by a garland of flowers, has been placed a pearl necklace with a bow. Around this element, four vases with birds perched on interspersed branches and, more towards the outside, a band with vegetal scrolls are presented. They frame this area with simplified scrolls and one with others more worked and interspersed with avenerated forms and heraldic shields, and posed birds. The fleur-de-lis on the edge clearly shows the influence of Gobelino's works on this board. The French workshop was created with the aim of making this type of inlay for the court of this country, and is the heir of the native centre of the "hard stone work": the Florence of Piero de Medici and Lorenzo the Magnificent, who wanted to revive a Roman technique called mosaic "opus sectile". It is also necessary to mention the Royal Workshop of Naples and the one created by Carlos III in the Real Sitio of El Buen Retiro in Madrid, which closed at the beginning of the 19th century. After 1600 the primacy of decoration that appeared in the fifteenth century is clear, and elements such as birds, butterflies and pearl necklaces were added over time. The present example inherits all this tradition: compare with the table realized by Francesco Ghinghi in the Real Laboratory Delle Piedre Dure of Naples (number of catalog O00511) and the board (O00466) of towards half-full of century XVIII, both in the Museum of the Prado from Madrid, those preserved in the Museo Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence (especially works such as the panel made as a model for a table by Jacopo LIgozzi...

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

Pietra Dura Hollywood Regency Inlaid Stone Center Table This table measures: 45 wide x 45 deep x 31.75 inches high, with a chair clearance of 30 inches We take our photos in a cont...

Italian Grand Tour Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Bird Fountain Tabletop 19th C Good condition Free international shipping.

Magnificent center or dining table featuring a dramatic inlaid Italian pietra dura specimen round top. The molded stone base known as the "crossed lyre" is constructed from three lar...