An Italian polychrome painted wooden table, possibly Urbino early 17th Century

the top with a geometric pattern centred by flowers and scrolls within a rectangular flame with birds and grapes on gilt iron stretchers

In overall good conserved condition. A rare piece. The painted decoration on the top is most beautiful. There are also some minor hairline cracks in the top towards the rear left corner these are hardly noticeable and can be left. Some retouching to the painted decoration to the trestle supports. The top has been reblocked. The iron loops on the trestle supports have been ebonised and there is some very minor retouching to some of the decoration behind one of the loops.
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Comparative Literature:
W. Odom, A History of Italian furniture from the Louis XIV to the early XIX centuries, Vol II, New York, 1967, p. 42, for a related trestle table with a painted top and iron stretchers, described as Tuscan.

This type of table has its origins in those early pieces of furniture which were made so that they could be easily dismantled and transported:  tables which were essentially simple tops resting on trestle supports. For the most part they would have been made with wood rather than expensive materials and covered with textiles which would have been either simple or elaborately decorated and were often edged with heavy fringed borders.The fact that this beautiful table is so richly decorated would suggest that it was meant to be displayed and used without a cloth or textile. The presence of vine leaves and grapes in the decoration of the top leads to the supposition that the table was intended for use in a dining room. Very elaborately inlaid examples in ebony and ivory dating from this period were often aristocratic commissions.
There are quite a number of grandiose portraits dating from the middle of the sixteenth century which feature such tables with differently shaped legs showing beneath draped cloths, see for example, the painting by Il Sassoferrato, `Ritratto del Cardinal Rapaccioni', now in the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA.