An Italian engraved mother-of–pearl, ebony and ivory inlaid walnut and marquetry `grottesche', panel inlaid with the motto of Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580), probably Piedmontese mid 16th century of oval form, the centre with a roundel and the motto `SPOLIATIS ARMA SUPERSUNT' (For those who have been dispossessed, retaliation is the only response), and military trophies, the whole inlaid with grotesques at each end and inlaid with a canopy above a broken pediment surmounted by horses and grotesques enclosing a female term of Ephesian Artemis suspending drapery above winged female busts and a hippocampus, the other end with a man beneath a canopy with a warrior and a mermaid flanking above goats and wicker baskets, with reserves with swans and various beasts with hooves including masks, a leopard, suspending fruiting and foliate swags, and further geometric reserves with a mermaid with a trident on each side, with plinths supporting female terms in drapery holding fruit baskets and supporting a fruit-filled basket on their heads above a plinth with a bird at each end, the outer border with scrolls and a monogram of probably of interlaced LL's and an M within a diagonally striped border 90cm by 69cm; 2ft. 11½in., 2ft. 3in.
An Italian engraved mother-of–pearl, ebony and ivory inlaid walnut and marquetry `grottesche', panel inlaid with the motto of Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580), probably Piedmontese mid 16th century of oval form, the centre with a roundel and the motto `SPOLIATIS ARMA SUPERSUNT' (For those who have been dispossessed, retaliation is the only response), and military trophies, the whole inlaid with grotesques at each end and inlaid with a canopy above a broken pediment surmounted by horses and grotesques enclosing a female term of Ephesian Artemis suspending drapery above winged female busts and a hippocampus, the other end with a man beneath a canopy with a warrior and a mermaid flanking above goats and wicker baskets, with reserves with swans and various beasts with hooves including masks, a leopard, suspending fruiting and foliate swags, and further geometric reserves with a mermaid with a trident on each side, with plinths supporting female terms in drapery holding fruit baskets and supporting a fruit-filled basket on their heads above a plinth with a bird at each end, the outer border with scrolls and a monogram of probably of interlaced LL's and an M within a diagonally striped border 90cm by 69cm; 2ft. 11½in., 2ft. 3in.
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