The Medici Farnese Table

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DesignerDesigned by Jacopo Ligozzi(Italian, 1547–1626)Italian, 1547–1626

MakerMade by Giovanni Battista Sassi(Italian, c. 1587 - 1623)Italian, c. 1587 - 1623

CultureItalian (Florentine)

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The Medici Farnese Table

Datec. 1620

MediumMarble with glass and various stones, including verde dell'Arno, jasper, carnelian, chalcedony, lapis lazuli, breccia ogre d'Inghliterra (puddingstone) and fluorite

DimensionsOverall: 31 1/8 × 34 3/4 × 30 1/4 in. (79 × 88.3 × 76.8 cm)
Overall (.A, base): 29 1/4 × 14 11/16 × 13 11/16 in. (74.3 × 37.3 × 34.8 cm)
Overall (.B, tabletop): 3 1/4 × 34 3/4 × 30 1/4 in. (8.3 × 88.3 × 76.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Endowment

Object number2026.201.A,.B

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Object Type

FURNITURE

ProvenanceCommissioned by Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590-1621); Gifted by Cosimo II to Cardinal Odoardo Farnese (1573-1626), October 1620; By inheritance to the Cardinal's nephew, Odoardo I Farnese Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1612-1646), likely the table at Palazzo Farnese, Rome, listed in the Primo Camerino at Palazzetto Parnese, in the 1644 inventory; By descent to his son, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1630-1694); Possibly de-accessioned when the palazzetto was dismantled in 1667 or later in 1732, when destroyed; Acquired by a member of the Greville Family, of Warwick Castle, first clearly described in the 1800 inventory; Thence by descent in the family, at Warwick Castle, until sold by Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick (1911-1984); [his sale, at Christie's London, 30th May 1968, lot 90]; Private collection, France, acquired at the above sale; Thence by descent to the present owner; [Sotheby's London, private sale, 2026]; purchased by MFAH, 2026.

Exhibition HistoryNone
Published References Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Guardaroba Medicea 370 Biblioteca Nazionale Firenze, Manoscritti di Gino Capponi, CCLXI, I,£ 2ir., 'Diario e Cerimoniale della Corte medicea, tenuto da Cesare Tinghi, aiutante del randuca Ferdinando I (22 Luglio 1600 al 9 Novembre 1623)', 26111 , c. 276. Giovanni Targionni Torzetti, Notizie degli aggrandimenti de/le scienze fisiche accauti in Toscana net Corso di anni LX def secolo XVII, Florence, 1780, p. 15. William Field, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick, 1815, p.177, in Anti Room. Henry T Cooke, An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff. Stoneleigh Abbey, The Beauchamp Chapel and other places of interest, Warwick, 1847, p.47, in Red Drawing Room F. E. Warwick, 'Warwick Castle', in The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. XI, January - April 1897, pp. 37 in the Red Drawing Room. Anna Maria Giusti, Paolo Mazzoni, Annapaula Pampaloni Martelli,// Museo dell'Opificio de/le Pietre Dure a Firenze, Milan, 1978. Umberto Baldini, Anna Maria Giusti, Annapaula Pampaloni Martelli, La Capella dei Principi e le Pietre Dure a Firenze, Milan, 1979, p.258, 259, 287. Bertrand Jestaz (ed.), L'inventaire du Palais Farnese et des Proprietes Farnese a Rome en 1644, Rome, 1994, p.136, nr. 3302. Wolfram Koeppe (ed.); Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008, p.172-173, nr. 39. Bertrand Jestaz, 'Les tables de marbre au palais Farnese', in Melanges de /'Ecole franr;aise de Rome - ltalie et Mediterranee modernes et contemporaines, 2010, 122-2, 210, pp.297-310. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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