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Lot 616

A FINE PIETRA DURA TABLE TOP WITH MUSICAL EMBLEMS

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Schätzpreis:

3.000 €

Description:

20th century
131 x 67 x 3 cm
The moulded rectangular top with rich stone marquety of lapis lazuli, jaspers, agate, and other marbles and hardstones, depicting a central stillife with music instruments, the boder tooled with octagonal fields with bouquets of flowers and birds. Minute traces of use.
After a similar table top today stored at the Museum Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. Lit. Il Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure a Firenze, Electra Editrice, fig. 20.