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AN ITALIAN SCAGLIOLIA TABLE TOP
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The table top of rectangular form, with a lion to the center, satyrs to each corner and The design of this scagliola top is based on pietre dure
fruits, fauna and flowering vines along the borders, together with two stone Ionic capitals tops of the second half 17th/early 18th century, such
as that presented by archduke Cosimo III of Florence
1Ω in. (4 cm.) high, 58Ω in. (148.5 cm.) wide, 33º in. (84.5 cm.) deep (3)
to Prince Karl Albrecht of Bavaria in 1716 which is
$12,000-18,000
today at Schloss Nymphenburg. That table top with
its stand was made in the ducal workshops in Florence
PROVENANCE:
after designs by Giovanni Battista Foggini (d. 1715) and
Acquired from Arthur Davidson, London, 1976.
Vittorio Crosten. The counterpart to the Nymphenburg
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
example is today at Palazzo Pitti. Both table tops have
the classically scrolling foliage with interspersed birds.
The borders are differing between the two tables as
the Nymphenburg example was re-worked, while the
central parts were made in 1704 to the designs of the
carver Crosten.

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