Top 318- Pietre Dure Table
Florence or Rome
Tabletop: circa 1580-1600
Pietre dure and marble mosaic including
breccia di Tivoli (or Quintilina), giallo antico,
new antico, breccia rossa, breccia cenerina,
breccia verde, broccatello, bianco e new
antico, serpentine, alabaster fiorito and
alabaster a tartaruga, lapis lazuli, coral, rock
crystal, and yellow and black jasper
Length: 4 ft. 5% in. (136.5 cm); Width:
3 ft. 8 /2 in. (113 cm);
Base: circa 1825
Carved and gilt wood
Height: 2 ft. n^3 /s in. (89.9 cm)
Accession number 92 .DA.70
PROVENANCE
Corsini, Florence, by at least the nineteenth
century; by descent in the Corsini family;
[Same Art, Ltd., Zurich, 1991].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Leonardo Ginori Lisci, I Palazzi di Firenze
nelk storia delTarte (Florence, 1972), vol. 1,
p. 152 (reproduces nineteenth-century
archival photograph of object); Alessandra
Guicciardini Corsi Salviati, AJJreschi di
Pahzzo Corsini a Firenze ι6$ο~ιγοο (Florence,
1989), pi. 23 (reproduces same photograph
as above); "Acquisitions/1992," GettyMusJzi
(1993), in press, illus.319 Console Table
(?) Piedmont, circa 1730
Carved and gilt wood with sarrancolin
marble top
Height: 2 ft. 10% in. (86.9 cm); Width:
6 ft. 5J4 in. (196.2 cm); Depth: 3 ft. 6^3 4 in.
(78.1 cm)
Accession number 78 .DA.118
PROVENANCE
Elsie de Wolfe, New York.l88 ITALIAN TABLES
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