Side table depicting an owl is surrounded by different English garden birds entwined within a border of vines. Many different types of rare and exotic marbles and semi-precious stones were meticulously chosen for their colour and shading to imitate the birds' plumage. The pieces of stone are cut and precisely fitted together to make the birds appear like a painting. It is set in an American walnut base.
As a student, Thomas Greenaway travelled to Italy and discovered the art of pietra dura, a traditional 16th century technique using coloured stones to ...
