A 19thC Italian Painted & Specimen Marble Topped Centre Table c.1890; The Estate of Sir David Tang sub-Curios The picture is undeniably decorative

The picture is undeniably decorative

This is a dramatic and bold piece of vintage artwork

Greek sculpture broke free from the artistic conventions

the central oval glass surrounded by a gadrooned border and a further eight sections surrounded by a petal decorated frame

but after 1840 Boston rockers were mass-produced by many makers

A 19thC Italian Painted & Specimen Marble Topped Centre Table c.1890; The Estate of Sir David Tang sub-Curios The picture is undeniably decorativeOrigin: Italian Period: Neoclassical Provenance: The Estate of the Late Sir David Tang Date: c. 1890 Height: 30 Diameter: 37. 75 The good quality specimen inlaid marble topped centre table, showing an array of Italian quarried marbles, radiating from a central circular section of Corso della mola di S. Ambrogio, from the province of Verona, to a border with ovals, circles and lozenge shaped specimens, to an outer Cipollino nero marble border, the top