Pietra Dura Table in Neoclassical Style

Solid beechwood, carved and turquoise colored and polished gold-plated. Square frame on S-shaped curved volutes. Centrally a column ending in a rosette-shaped base. Four-sided base p...

Ash root on solid beech. On strongly curved, over corner standing legs, connected by slightly intervening intermediate compartment. Outstanding saber-sha...

Ash root on solid beech. On strongly curved, over corner standing legs, connected by slightly intervening intermediate compartment. Outstanding saber-sha...

Mahogany on solid wood. Three-sided base plate on. Centrally ascending, eightfold folded column, flanked by three curved volutes. A strict form of early-Biedermeier time. It is equipped with a folding mechanism. This type is very practical, not only because it is space-saving, but because it looks highly decorative. It is a traditionally built table. It can be distinguished from a table from 1820...

Highly valuable bird’s-eye maple veneer on solid pinewood bowed borders on sabre-formed conical, tapered four edged legs. Four-sided retracted pedestal on disc feet. Slender overlapping table...

Exotic veneer on solid oak and wood. Extremely finely chased and rich bronze applications. Rectangular body. A hand painted picture badge on the front and side view. Gilded bronze de...

Important Palatial & Rare 19th Century Pietra Dura Giltwood Centre Table. This magnificent rectangular table incorporates an exquisitely inlaid Florentine Pietra Dura work of art. The truly incredibly and colourful hardstone specimens have been meticulously chosen & inlaid to form the most gorgeous floral display. It is amongst the finest of its type. This masterpiece is displayed on its original carved work of sculptural art, a baluster stem with acanthus leaves and raised on four acanthus leaf scrolled feet, the gilding, burnished in parts to perfection and highlighting a palatial majesty. The art of creating images by cutting hardstones and fitting them into a jigsaw of shapes, flowered under the Florentine Medici and is known as Pietra Dura. The technique of Pietra Dura is highly prized and widely used and can be found in settings ranging from antique jewellery boxes to the walls of the Taj Mahal. The development of the technique, often called ‘painting in stone’ was one of the many achievements of the Florentine Renaissance. Like many other forms of antique decorative art...

Solid beechwood, carved, chocolate brown hand-painted and gilded. (A-Gm-153).

Exceptional, richly inlaid, circa 1850, Roman, ebonized and parcel gilt, Pietra Dura occasional table with scrolling x-stretcher capped by a marble, sphere finial.

Pietra dura table platter in Classicist style. Colored inlaid mosaic pattern in facet shape with in itself tapered optic towards the middle. Inlaid with highly valuable semi preciou...

A fine derbyshire pietra dura specimen marble table top, circa 1820. The Ashford black marble top inset with numerous marbles, amongst which are...

A Very fine Franco-Italian 19th century neoclassical Revival style gilt-bronze and Pietra Dura (or Pietra-Dure) occasional side-table Gueridon. The circular gilt-bronze frame raised ...