Just ten days until the release of Gilded Deceit! This table we saw at the Metropolitan Museum on our recent visit could be on the terrace at Malcolm’s villa in Italy. The villa, which Malcolm inherited from Arabella, was built in the late 16th century and would contain furniture from a variety of eras. This table is from Farnese Palace by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola c. 1565-1573.
Tracy Grant - Novelist 
May 5, 2017 at 1:52 am
Georgeous! I can see them having an al fresco meal.
May 5, 2017 at 3:18 am
And I’d bet it’s solid marble, Tracy. Am I right? It’s quite dramatic and grand!
May 8, 2017 at 3:13 pm
I remember going to a museum in Vienna with a large collection of these inlaid tables, they were gorgeous. The inlays are a variety of semiprecious stones. I’m thinking it must have been the Kunsthistorisches Museum.