Featured Ladies table ? not sure what era, can you help please

Evening everyone,

I wonder if anyone can help me please. I bought this table many years ago because I liked the inlaid wood work on the top. I believe it could be a Victorian ladies table ? but I am not sure.

It measures 74.5 cm across
43.5 cm from front to back
and 71.5 cm tall

I believe the joints are dove tale. It has four draws to the front.

You will have to excuse my ignorance but that is all I know. I can find no makers marks on it and did not even know it was carved underneath before I took the photo's last week

I wonder if they made a mistake on one side and started again on the other ?

Sorry my knowledge is shameful but I bought it because i like it, nothing more.

Would be very grateful for any information you may be able to offer.

Thank you very much

Kindest regards

TF

 

Could you please edit your post & choose 'show all as full size' please. Then we don't have to deal with clicking on multiple thumbnails. TY

 

Did that work Wiscbirddog ?

Kind regards
TF

 

TY TF

 

Beautiful!

 

nice. the arrangement of the drawers looks rather Louis Philippe but eventually made in Italy with that black marquetry.
not necesserally for ladies but as small side tables for writing hands.

 

Something about it reminds me of a Victorian card table for ladies that my GREAT Grandmother had (born 1900). ????

 

Wow! That is incredibly beautiful! I believe this kind of table was referred to as a dressing table. I've seen some with one shallow drawer that goes all the way across. I've never seen one with such an intricate inlay or with the knee hole arch and lower drawers.

It's obviously old and all hand made. Looks to me like the maker was an artist and not necessarily a regular cabinet maker. See how rough the dove tails on the drawers look? And how he has pieced the backing pieces / braces inside the short sides? And the drawer guides look like scraps he picked up off the workshop floor. It seems to me a cabinet maker would have been more precise with these, while your artist was more focused on the aesthetics -- the intricate details of the inlay top. It's almost as if the base was built as a means to display the gorgeous inlaid top.

Very beautiful piece! Thank you for sharing it.

 

A beautiful little table, TF. The top, and possibly the entire table, was made in Sorrento, Italy. My guess would be late 19th century.
Sorrento is famous for marquetry (inlay), usually of small pieces. Sorrento table tops were exported worldwide, but complete tables were also made.

 

Agreed, that top design is classic Sorrento ware. I've later boxes with it.

 

Thank you very much for the pointer to Serrento. I have done an internet search of Serrento ware but can't find any similar table tops.

I've searched French and Dutch marquetry with Dutch seeming to follow that style.
Then I came across William and Mary Seaweed Marquetry which does seem very similar.
I will try and post some pictures tomorrow.

Kindest regards
TF

 

Maybe it helps if you search for Sorrento, with an o.

The Dutch made amazing marquetry, but this doesn't look Dutch to my Dutch eyes.

 

maybe someone took the sorry remnants of a French Empire style writing table and exchanged the top.
one should not forget that the Italians were copying all 19th c. French styles directly at the time of coming into fashion.

 

That's what it looks like, and those tops were readily available.

 

Thanks very much everyone for your help. You say these tops were readily available ? I can’t find a picture of anything similar, does anyone have a picture of one ?

Thank you
Kindest regards
TF

 

Evening all,

I am still at a complete loss to finding any similar table tops. I would like to get a rough estimate for my home insurance, how would I go about doing this please ? Any help would be very much appreciated

Thank you

 

I am sorry, no idea, I just id things. Or try to.

 

http://www.antiques-magazine.com/mobili-intarsiati

https://www.google.ch/search?source...AhXQ4IUKHZjvDDYQjJkEegQIARAB&biw=1184&bih=535

cosa c’è?