An Italian Pietra Dura and Alabaster Table Top

The top with moulded alabaster fiorito border surrounding a central granito di Firenze field inlaid with fourteen 17th century plaques of circular and rectangular form, six depicting birds on flowering branches, the rest depicting village scenes and architectural landscapes, the stones including Arnese , lapis lazuli, giallo di Siena , verde antico , Flandres , pietra paesina , black Belgian marble, and some jaspers, granites and breccia marbles, the later moulded edge to the back made of wood and painted to match, on a French Regence-style giltwood base

Estimate:$79,430.76

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