Rare Mid-19th Century Sorrento Centre Table

The circular top with striking geometric inlay in three different woods creating an almost optical illusion of depth. The top rests on a turned inlaid column terminating in three spl...

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

19th century inlaid satinwood centre / occasional table, with an oval shaped top, the apron below profusely inlaid all over, standing on tapering legs with spade feet and brass casto...

K0325, elegant 19th rosewood occasional table, having original marble top and shaped frieze with brass edge and three cabriole legs with ormolu decoration united by shaped undertier....

A good centre table by Johnstone & Jeanes of London   Constructed in amboyna, with extensive marquetry inlays in specimen woods, and enhanced with parcel-gilt highlights. Rising from a cruciform platform base adorned with knops and having concealed castors, supporting the inlaid, and gently stepped and tapering centre column with stylized 'c' form brackets bracing the octagonal top, the outer guard band having English roses inlaid at the angles, with foliates with the national emblems of Scotland and Ireland, thistles and shamrocks. Stamped by the makers to the underside, 'Johnstone & Jeanes 67 Bond Street'. circa 1845 Published in “British Furniture 1820 to 1920” by Christopher Payne, 2023, p. 131, illustrated fig. 3.21. Johnstone, Jeanes & Co John Johnstone of Bond Street came to prominence after his collaboration with Robert Jupe, an 'upholder' of 47 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, who patented a remarkable design for a circular expanding dining table with a segmented top in 1835. After Jupe's death, the firm traded as 'Johnstone and Jeanes' from 1842 until 1880, having moved to 67 Bond Street and continuing the tradition of producing high quality furniture. After 1880, the company was re-named Johnstone & Norman. They exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1851, The International Exhibition of London in 1862, and The Paris Exhibition of 1878. Both the Royal Collection Trust and the Victoria & Albert Museum own stamped pieces of furniture in their collections. The company of Crace were designers and decorators to the Royal household from 1768 until 1899, working for every monarch from George the Third...

ELEGANT TABLE FROM THE CENTER OF SORRENTO (Sorrento-Naples) 19th Century Walnut wood veneer inlaid with geometric motifs in various wood essences Sorrento 19th century h 81 x 120 cm...