Italian Pietra Dura and Wrought Iron Table , specimen marble top with millitaria motifs including shield, armor, canon, trumpets, axes, drums, torches, swords, spears and tritons, central oval cartouche, scrolled iron base with floral finialed stretcher , h. 32 1/2 in., w. 94 1/2 in., d. 47 in Provenance: Whisnant Galleries Collection, New Orleans, LA. Note: A revered lapidary art, Italian commesso in pietra dura work combines the arts of stone carving, mosaic and inlay using shaped and fitted colored stone to create a painting-like effect. Designed in the Roman 16th century style, this table uses jasper, sienna, carrara, lapis lazuli, and other stone quarried in around the Italian peninsula. Dominated by jasper cartouches in candelieri and strapwork frames reminiscent of wrought iron, the table uses martial motifs of weapons, trophies, and armor instead of the more traditional fruiting and floral forms. A pietra dura table from a house on the Wiltshire Downs with martial forms and jasper cartouches very similar to those seen here, was sold by Christie’s, London March 6, 2008 as lot 225.

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