This tabletop has a design of geometrical motifs around a large, agate oval with a decoration of coloured marble inlay. It is known as “the Venetian Piece” due to the fact that it has been identified as the table or sideboard that was located “in the Third Room of the Court Painters’ Workshop in the Alcázar, known as the Venetian [room]”, according to the 1700 inventory of the possessions of Charles II.
Aguiló Alonso, María Paz, El mueble en España: Siglos XVI-XVII, C.S.I.C. Antiquaria, 1993, pp. 346.
González-Palacios, Alvar, Las colecciones reales españolas de mosaicos y piedras duras, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2001, pp. 67-68, nº 4.
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.
Museo Real de Pinturas a la muerte de Fernando VII, 1834.
Núm. s. n..
Tasacion de las mesas de mosaico y piedras duras que existen en el Real Museo [...] Dos tableros para mesa, embutidos de diferentes marmoles ytalianos de cuatro y medio pies de largo por tres de ancho ... 16.000
Inv. Real Museo, Escultura, 1857.
Núm. 190.
190. Tablero de mosaico embutido/ de diferentes marmoles ytalianos. / Largo 4 pies, 7 pulg; ancho 3 pies.
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