An Italian walnut octagonal centre table, Bolognese late 16th/early 17th Century

In very good conserved condition. Old marks and scratches throughout commensurate with age and use. The top has some very old chips and fragmentation with some old spits. Beautiful colour and patina.
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Comparative Literature
W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth to the early Nineteenth Centuries, Vol 1, New York, 1966, p. 316, fig. 301, illustrates a similar octagonal table formerly in the Davanzati Palace, Florence.

This table has an unusual structure as it has turned supports resting on bases square bses joined by crossed stretchers and the octagonal top is raised on a  deep frieze.

A similar table was sold in these Rooms, lot 117, 29th October 2008.