An important William IV giltwood center table attributed to Gillows surmounted by an Italian brass-mounted pietre dure and alabaster striato marble top the table circa 1830, the marble top 18th century

the rectangular alabaster striato marble top centered by an oval pietre dure reserve with a parrot perched on a fruiting foliate branch with a smaller bird and three butterflies within a verde antico marble banding with a foliate gadrooned brass molded edge, the conforming table base with plain frieze raised on a pair of trestle supports with carved foliate tops continuing to a pair of fluted columns raised on acanthus-carved cabriole downswept legs joined by a stretcher and ending in foliate-carved feet on casters.  The casters stamped COPE / PATENT.

Christie's, New York, Property from a Distinguished New York Collection, October 17, 1997 lot 89 ($46,000)

The design of the present table is nearly identical to a design for a table made by the Gillows firm ordered by Ferguson & Co. for the Revd. Fane in June 1825. (Stuart, op. cit., p. 268, fig. 274).  The table is in the French neoclassical taste as championed by Nicholas Morel and his subsequent partnerships with Hughes and the Seddon firm which made furniture George IV for the French Neoclassical interiors at Windsor.

The table itself with its canted top rail was almost certainly made to fit the fine Italian pietre dure and alabaster striato marble top with it's foliate-molded gadrooned brass edge.  The central oval reserve of pietre dure was most probably made in the Grand Ducal workshops in Florence in the 17th or 18th century.  Similar pietre dure panels are illustrated ...

The alabaster top is most probably Roman made in the late 18th century and inlaid with the earlier pietre dure panel and most probably made for wealthy aristocrats on the grand tour. 

 

See:

Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol. I, Woodbridge, 2008