Indian Rococo Style Table with Pietra Dura Inset Top

A French mood, an Indian hand, and a top that would stop a dinner party.

This Rococo style table with pietra dura inset top is contemporary, from Rajasthan, India. The body is carved teak clad with silver repousse, and the top is hardstone marquetry. Stone inlay of this kind flourished in Mughal India and is still practiced there today. Scrolled reds, golds and black spread across the top inside a rope-carved edge. Below it, a pierced shell hangs from the apron. Four heavily ornamented legs meet at a curving cross stretcher with a central urn. Forty-eight inches long and 30 high.

Restraint was invited. It sent regrets.