Specimen Marbles from the Grand Tour Set into a Victorian Table Top

LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.

18 1/4 in. (14.3 kg total, 46.5 cm including stand).

With a host of Grand Tour marble, porphyry and other specimens set into a circular marble 'table top' in the late 19th-early 20th century; with black band border similar to items from the workshop of Francesco Sibilio; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Provenance

Acquired from Diana Steel just before the end of 1999 in Suffolk, UK.
From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 0377