Details
Each of square form and geometrically inlaid with bianco e nero, brocatelle di spagna, breccia, alabastro, jasper, onyx, pecorella, alabastro and lumachella povanazzo, cotanella antica di san pietro, porta santo, semesanto and verde antico among others, within a black slate border with bead and reel ormolu edge mounts, on modern gilt metal bases joined by an 'X' shaped stretcher
1914 in. (49 cm.) square
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 22 May 2019, lot 296.
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An almost identical specimen marble top, with a conforming geometrical and lozenge-shaped arrangement in related specimen marbles and with a similar beaded ormolu surround, mounted on an elaborately carved giltwood neoclassical tripod base, is conserved in the Fondazione Ivan Bruschi private museum in Arezzo, Italy. The black marble border of the tops here offered, which are preciously mounted with a bead and reel ormolu surround, was most probably added at the end of the 18th or early 19th century to further embellish the exquisite older specimen marble panels within.

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