Carthage Mosaic Round Table

 c. 1855

An American Rococo Gothic walnut marble-top table.  Marble top has a scene with a horse and a palm tree in yellow, red and gray in a circular center with the inscription "Carthago Delenda Est."  Top of table has a Gothic fret-carved border with turned pendants, on a leaf-carved shaft.  Quadrupedal base, each leg with double-scroll design.  The marble was taken from a house in the ruins of Carthage. (Carthage was destroyed in 179 BCE.)  Given to Sec. Seward by Luigi di Cesnola, a well known archaeologist.