18th Century Gilt and White Gesso Table with Painted Top Depicting Venus

An occasional table in the Louis XVIth manner Constructed in giltwood, with a hardstone inlaid top; of circular form, rising from circular toupie feet, the conforming legs conjoin...

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...

An Italian Pietra Dura top occasional table Constructed in carved gilt wood, having an unusual pietra dura inlaid rectangular platform; the table's legs terminating in scrolls, wi...

A Very Fine Marquetry Inlaid Occasional Table Firmly Attributed to François Linke This fine table, closely related to other examples by François Linke, is...

Vintage 20th century Louis XV style painted carved side table with dark green marble top. It is painted in a bisque color carved in classic French design on elegant cabriole legs. Th...

Finely carved gold side table with marble top, Louis XV white/gold Excellent French Louis XV style table. High-quality, solid beech wo...

Table, having a marbelized rectangular molded top with bowed sides, on conforming base of giltwood, its foliate carved apron centered by cartouche, raised on acanthine cabriole legs ...

A lovely Italian 19th century giltwood and Pietra Dura marble side table. The table is raised on four scrolled legs with paw designs. At the base are large theatrical masks below the...