An Italian pietre dure and specimen marble topped painted wooden console table, the top Roman late 18th century

the rectangular top centred by a diaper decorated panel with specimen marbles and pietre dure within a border of roundels and intersecting geometric motifs all on a white marble ground on an associated rectangular base on two fluted ivory painted columns with egg-and-dart collars and beading with ribbon-tied oak leaves on square ebonised plinths joined by a stretcher carved with lunettes decorated with husks and foliage; base redecorated

By repute an aristocratic Genoese collection.

In overall good conserved condition. The top has a beautiful choice of stones which are generally in very good order with a restoration to a couple of the diaper motifs but these have been well executed and are hardly noticeable. Old very minor marks, chips and scratches to the marble top which is slightly dirty and would benefit from a light clean accoding to taste. Some flaking off of the painted decoration on the base as visible from the catalogue photograph which can be touched up. Some scattered age cracks together with some vertical cracks which can easily be filled.
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