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Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler's Tray C1900

Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
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  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
  • Vintage English Oval Edwardian Marquetry Butler\
Ref: A5000
Price: £425.00
This is a beautiful English Edwardian mahogany and marquetry oval butler's tray, circa 1900 in date.   The tray features a...
This is a beautiful English Edwardian mahogany and marquetry oval butler's tray, circa 1900 in date.
 
The tray features a Sheraton style design with  beautiful marquetry inlaid decoration and it is of shaped oval form with a moulded edge, complete with  brass handles at each end.
 
The tray showcases flamed mahogany, with a stunning central motif of a large shell crafted from satinwood and tulipwood with surrounding ribbons, swags, and tails, demonstrating the superb quality of the marquetry work.
 
 It can be used for serving drinks or purely for decorative purposes.
 
Condition:
 
In really excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition.


Dimensions in cm:

Height 6.5 cm x Width 63.5 cm x Depth 43 cm

Dimensions in inches:

Height 3 inches x Width 2 feet, 1 inch x Depth 1 foot, 5 inches

Our reference: A5000

Please feel free to email or call us (+44 20 8809 9605) to arrange a viewing in our North London warehouse.

Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.

Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
  

Dimensions in cm:

Height 6.5 cm x Width 63.5 cm x Depth 43 cm

Dimensions in inches:

Height 3 inches x Width 2 feet, 1 inch x Depth 1 foot, 5 inches

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