19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Walnut Center Dining Table With Drawers

19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Walnut Center Dining Table with Drawers.
This Italian solid walnut center table is sturdy, solid, and timeless in construction and conception, harking back to the 19th century Renassaince revival. This antique Italian rectangular table was made using a period plank by constructing or reconstructing the underlying structure in the second half of the 1800s, which is cup-axle walnut with a molded crossbeam and a carved giral band and two drawers. The table is rectangular and is in good condition and extremely solid.
Realized with an antique massive single plant top, resting on an H-shaped stretcher. In keeping with the design for library tables of the Renaissance, this table has carved, scroll-shaped verticals supporting the table top, incorporating dentil carved moulding.
Unlike French tables made around the same time, this table is typical of the Italian construction process in which the heavy top comes off, but when resting on the base is held there by the force of gravity, it is approximately 50kg heavy.
The main horizontal elements of the table (below the top) are edged in a pattern of lozenges and scrolls. Crowning it all is a massive top whose perimeter is defined by dentil moulding.
We see this table’s highest and best use as an executive desk or library table having pride of place in a home or a commercial setting.