The Farnese Table, Marble and Hardstone Table with Sphinx Supports

A long rectangular table with a green marble edge and a top inlaid with colored stone panels and a pale central band. It rests on three carved pale supports with winged figures, scrolling foliage and grotesque ornament, set against a plain gray background.

Artist

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

Date

ca. 1565–73

Medium

Marble of different colors, semiprecious stones, Egyptian alabaster, residue of paint of different colors on the piers

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2140 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958