Marble top and marquetry of marbles and hard stones ("pietra - Lot 319

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Marble top and marquetry of marbles and hard stones ("pietra - Lot 319
Marble top and marquetry of marbles and hard stones ("pietra dura") with rich polychrome decoration of flowers, birds and butterflies. Work in the Florentine style. W_127 cm D_82 cm Our tray is based on a model by Gaetano Bianchini (1807-1866), a mosaicist in Florence. Reference: a 19th-century tray in the Sotheby's London sale of September 6, 2023. Bibliography: for the original model, Annamaria Giusti (ed.), Dagli Splendori di corte al lusso borghese: L'Opificio delle Pietre Dure nell'Italia unita, Florence, 2011, illustrated p. 42.
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