Whoever is ready and willing to work, will have work; and the more he does, the more work will come to him. Work does not seek the idle man, but thrusts itself upon the industrious one.
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.
