A Principally 18thC Italian Painted Centre Table sub-Natural History and what they represented in

and what they represented in terms of power and strength

eight-spindled hoop back

The paper backing to the reverse gives us a clue that this family may have been living in the Lyon area of France

There is also some old swaddling inside the boot

A Principally 18thC Italian Painted Centre Table sub-Natural History and what they represented inOrigin: Italian Period: 18thC & Later Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 & Later Height: 30 Width: 47 Depth: 15. 75 The very decorative painted and lacquered centre table, having a cartouche rectangular top with canted corners in turquoise, to a gold painted dentil frieze on four volute legs with acanthus crestings and scrolled feet, the legs picked out in green, red and gold, the table made up of eighteenth century elements and surviving from northern