Walnut travel table, Italian Renaissance period

Solid walnut wood center table.
The monoxyl top (cut from a single piece of walnut) 150 cm long by 79 cm wide is highlighted on all sides by a frieze of dentils.
It rests on two lyre-shaped trestles which are finished with runners.
The trestles are connected by a central scrolled spacer; the latter pierces both sides and its two ends are blocked by keys.

Very good state of conservation.

Central Italy, end of the Renaissance period around 1580-1600.

Dimensions:

Width: 151cm; Depth: 79 cm; Height: 79 cm

Our opinion :

The renaissance table that we are presenting is completely removable.
Removing the two keys and unscrewing the nuts located under the table (formerly with single tenons) allows the table to be dismantled into four sections, the table top, the two trestles and the crosspiece.
The significant space saving allowed the transport of our table when traveling by the elite of the Italian nobility.
This type of center table had multiple functions, it could be used for meals, for writing or simply for displaying dishes...
The luxurious 79 cm wide monoxyl top tells us that we are facing a luxury model which required the felling of a centuries-old walnut tree almost a meter in diameter.
The still very refined decoration, with dentils and a lyre-shaped base, allows us to place it at the end of the Renaissance, in the last years of the 16th century.