This tabletop has a geometrical decoration with a large central oval framed by two volutes. The border combines ovals and diamonds with floral motifs. A similar type of decoration is to be found on the walls of a number of seventeeth-century Roman chapels.
Mesas de piedras duras en el Museo del Prado, Galería Antiquaria, 142, 1996, pp. 28-34.
González-Palacios, Alvar, Las colecciones reales españolas de mosaicos y piedras duras, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2001, pp. 78-79, nº 7.
Gisbert, María Isabel, Vocabulario de mármoles arqueológicos en las mesas de piedras duras del Museo del Prado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XX, 2002, pp. 111-128.
Inv. Real Museo, Sección Escultura, 1857.
Núm. 191.
"191. Tablero embutido con piedras Yta/lianas".
Room 003 (On Display)
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