Object Description
Circa 1870. A very rare and unusual Italian Sorrento Olivewood and inlaid
sofa table, the rectangular top with a large pictorial inlaid central panel,
including a church with trees and garden, framed by foliate inlay, with
broad banded with floral marquetry on an ebonized background with boxwood
inlay on each side, the flaps with inlaid panels depicting rural scenes with
similar inlay, the frieze with a pair of burr olive drawers with turned knob
handles with similar faux drawers to the back, all flanked by small
marquetry panels, all resting on four barley sugar legs resting on a pair of
trestle ends with foliate carving on the knees and elegant feet, all braced
by similar barley sugar tapering stretcher, in excellent condition, clean,
stylish and functional.