A 19thC Italian Painted & Specimen Marble Topped Centre Table c.1890; The Estate of Sir David Tang sub-Curios ) The hippopotamus is the

) The hippopotamus is the third largest land animal (after the elephant and the white rhinoceros) and the heaviest extant artiodactyl

She could be left as is a decorative relic of English country house furniture but if she is to be recovered the segmented rail must surely be salvaged

The pair of Swedish hand blown bottle flasks of rectangular form with rounded tops

silent man

The well executed oil on canvas portrait of a Lady of status

A 19thC Italian Painted & Specimen Marble Topped Centre Table c.1890; The Estate of Sir David Tang sub-Curios ) The hippopotamus is theOrigin: Italian Period: Neoclassical Provenance: The Estate of the Late Sir David Tang Date: c. 1890 Height: 30 Diameter: 37. 75 The good quality specimen inlaid marble topped centre table, showing an array of Italian quarried marbles, radiating from a central circular section of Corso della mola di S. Ambrogio, from the province of Verona, to a border with ovals, circles and lozenge shaped specimens, to an outer Cipollino nero marble border, the top