Italian 19th Century Renaissance St. Specimen Marble And Micro-Mosaic Side Table

An outstanding and extremely decorative Italian late 19th century Neo-Classical st. mahogany marble specimen side table. The table is raised on thr...

A high quality and extremely decorative Italian 19th century Grand Tour period Patinated bronze and micro mosaic side table. The table is is raised by elegant tapered supports ending...

A handsome and most decorative Italian 19th century ebonized Fruitwood, Ormolu and Specimen Marble side table. This charming three tiered table is raised on Ormolu casters below the ...

A stunning and extremely decorative Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze, ormolu, and Alabastro Fiorito side table. The unique table is raised by a square patinate...

Italian Renaissance style wrought iron end table with lyre style metal base and marble top.

A 19th century side/lamp table in solid walnut with likely its original black marble top. Featuring carved male and female busts to the frieze, turned and carved square tapered legs ...

A rare grand tour table Possibly by Cesare Roccheggiani The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of thousands of coloured glass tesserae; a central roundel depicting The Vatican from St Peter's Square within a malachite border, surrounded by a border including four cartouches in polychrome reserves of Roman views including the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; the Temple of Vesta, and the Pantheon, all interspersed and linked by voluminous bouquets of fruit and flowers representing the 4 seasons; the outer stylised border inlaid with deep blue tesserae evocative of exotic Lapis Lazuli. Supported on a finely carved Italian giltwood base, its design incorporating baskets of fruit and floral garlands echoing the 4 seasons theme of the table. Italian, Circa 1875 Other table tops inspired by this design, although not as finely executed, can be found in several Russian collections (which house the greatest micromosaics) including Vorontsov Palace, Muranovo House, as well as the imperial State Hermitage Museum. A tabletop with profuse floral micromosaic work was commissioned by the Belgian Royal family (sold Sotheby's, 2003). The floral garlands, the magnificent quality of the inlay and the use of distinct curved tesserae support the present attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani. According to Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, the world expert on micro mosaics, curved tesserae pieces were used in foliage, grass and animal fur by only the very best mosaicists such as Roccheggiani. Evidence of curved pieces, for instance, is observed in the foreground of the Temple of Vesta cartouche, to name but one observation of the master's hand. The scion of a dynasty of mosaicists, Roccheggiani was perhaps the most successful mosaicist in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He is doubtless related to Lorenzo Roccheggiani, a late eighteenth-century master mosaicist at the Vatican, whose work included the altarpiece, Crucifixion of St. Peter after Guido Reni. Nicolo Roccheggiani, possibly Lorenzo's son, was also a principle artist at the Vatican, involved in executing the famous tabletop Achilles Shield...

A fine quality 19th century Italian Micro Mosaic marble top gueridon, depicting a pair of Doves among exotic flowers with a classical Greek pattern boarder, Set in this wonderful han...