Roman Centre Table

This impressive circular fountain has been assembled as a center table with later lime stone top. The item depicts classic figures in naturalistic vi...

Rococo style French centre table with inlaid velvet top France Circa 1890

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...

A fine Regency design circular centre table with inset marble geometric inlaid top within an egg-and-dart frieze supported on three carved stylised dolphins resting upon an aged gess...

Stunning 19th century Italian marble-topped center table with original paint, 1890 Dimensions: 31.5 inches (80 cms) high 36 inches (91 cms) diameter.

Empire Centre Table A large French Empire centre table in figured mahogany with ormolu mounts, bronze feet and the original dished yellow-veined da...

Mahogany writing table, the large rectangular figured mahogany crossbanded top above freeze drawer. All raised up on platform end supports terminating in scrolling feet and casters u...

Louis XV style coffee table made by La Maison London. Rocaille revival style, hand-carved in solid wood, finished in hand-painted gesso white. Deep button upholstery with a raspber...

A fine circular Thomas Hope design entwined snake centre table. A marble top rests upon a moulded frieze supported on extraordinary intertwined pythons surrounding a central column. ...

Late 19th C French painted oak centre table / island unit. 1890 Dimensions 59 inches (150 cms) Wide 32 inches (81 cms) Deep 35.5 inches (90 cms) High.