Italian table, s.XIX. In black marble, hard stones and mother-of-pearl.

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  Italian table, s.XIX. In black marble, hard stones and mother-of-pearl. Measurements: 71,5 x 121 x 121 cm. Italian table in black marble, with the top worked with inlaid mother-of-pearl and hard stones forming a refined inlay. In the sixteenth century, in Italy began to work the "hard stone", a technique of inlaying marble slabs whose origin is oriental (used both in goldsmithing and cabinetmaking in the Near East) but that in Florence acquired its own meaning. During the Baroque period it reached its peak of splendor and was still in use in the 20th century. In the table in question, entirely made of black marble, on a cylindrical foot of thick section rests a circular top, all decorated with inlays combining mother-of-pearl and hard stones: a floral bouquet presides over the center and from it radial compositions with floral bouquets and birds in different shades, separated by decorative bands like festoons. Carmine, yellow, amber, emerald and turquoise petals spread their colors to the exotic birds, studying the chromatic harmony to perfection. In Florence this technique later reached a high degree of perfection, to the point that the improper name of Florentine mosaic is given to all types of hard stone inlays. This work occupied the "Opificio delle pietre dure" from the Renaissance to the present day. The fame of the high quality of the products of the Florentine "Opificio" spread in the Baroque period throughout the European courts, often through gifts from the grand dukes themselves to the other sovereigns. Following the example of Florence, perhaps due to the presence of Florentine craftsmen, the various royal manufactories in Europe produced works of inlaid hard stones and marbles in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. In the eighteenth century the use of hard stones inlaid in marble spread everywhere, not only in Italy, but also in India in the Moghul period, where, on the preceding tradition of inlaid limestone and schist applied to architecture and black marble inscriptions inlaid in white marble, the influence of Florentine inlays is inserted.
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