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Table top with a coat of arms
Also titled Tafelblad met familiewapen
Giovanni Leoni (Carpi, 1639–ca.)
1685
- Medium
- scagliola
- Classification
- furniture
- Dimensions
- height 3.6 cm x width 152 cm x depth 102 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vriendenloterij and H.B. van der Ven, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Scagliola is an artificial marble made of plaster and ground marble. From the 17th century it was used in Italy to imitate pietra dura or inlay work in marble and other kinds of stone. Extremely subtle nuances of colour could be achieved, as this table top demonstrates. The arms are those of the Amsterdam mayor, scholar and art collector Nicolaas Witsen (1641–1717).
