A George IV parcel-gilt ebonized Italian inlaid glass and stone top center table circa 1825, the top attributed to Francesco Sibilio

Overall good condition; some minor dents to the brass-mounted edge of top; gilding and ebonized decoration refreshed; minor nicks and wear to decoration.
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Francesco Sibilio was a Roman marble craftsman and merchant, active during the papacy of Pius VII.  The glass fragments used in such tables come from mosaic glass vessels, mostly bowls, dating from the late 1st Century B.C. to the early 1st Century A.D and include fragments of millefiori, ribbon-glass, reticelli and glass imitating marbles such as giallo antico and verde antico. These fragments were excavated in the 19th Century and heated in order to level and smooth them. Dealers in Antiquities often polished them and mounted them in cardboard strips with gilded edges. His collection of semi-precious and hard stones, as well as marbles, was very famous at the time. He was also considered to be one of the major experts in this field. Faustino Corsi, in an important treatise on ancient Roman marbles, cites Sibilio's name many times. González-Palacios, as well as eminent 19th Century scholars, such as Francesco Belli, have named some particularly unusual marbles after him, as it is known that he owned large pieces of them.

Still today, definitions such as 'Sibilio's mischio granit', 'Sibilio's red lumachella' or 'madreporite', are used. Corsi also records certain pieces executed by Sibilio (Delle Pietre Antiche, Rome 1845). González-Palacios has traced back some of these works: a table top signed and dated 1824 and two small malachite and lapis lazuli columns, beautifully carved, also signed and dated 1833.