TABLE
Creator(s): Joseph Urban (Designer) , Societa Civile Arte Del Mosaico (Manufacturer)
On view in: Dining Room
About this object
The symmetrical design with white flowers and scrolls on a yellow marble ground and a border with cornucopias full of fruit was supervised by Joseph Urban, architect for Mar-A-Lago, inspired by Renaissance pietre dure tables in the Pitti Palace in Florence. Eleven different stones were used, including various marbles. Hutton coat-of-arms and device of mosaic works used in design. Has six leaves.
- Object name:
- TABLE
- Made from:
- Wood (walnut) -- marble -- lapis lazuli -- jasper -- alabaster -- chalcedony -- shell -- gabbro
- Made in:
- Florence, Italy
- Date made:
- 1928
- Size:
- 914.4 × 2011.7 × 5821.7 cm (360 × 792 × 2292 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 33.50
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- COAT OF ARMS Hutton coat of arms [on one side] Coat of arms for the mosaic works (ARTE DEL MUSAICO MEDICEO FIRENZE AD MCMXXVIII (1928)) [on other side]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973