Antique Italian Grand Tour Pietra Dura Floral Inlay Marble Desk Top Obelisk, Thermometer frame condition with the fully intact

condition with the fully intact cut glass or crystal inkwells and

and has a gold filet that really sets off the needlework

solid blocks of oak

and before that years ago from Paris

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Antique Italian Grand Tour Pietra Dura Floral Inlay Marble Desk Top Obelisk, Thermometer frame condition with the fully intactAll over Rome one sees the ancient obelisks from Egypt, brought as spoils of the early expansion of the Roman Empire over 2000 years ago, and the repetition of that ancient form here, in Italian marble and by 19th century Italian artisans, is a Grand Tour souvenir that must have thrilled early travelers as much as these do us today. The rare form makes a fabulous grouping, desktop, as you know. These are rather rare, most having given over to the