Come on in and learn all about cold process soap! It’s fun, so much better for your skin, and so rewarding to create, too! Hello friends! I hope you are having an amazing week! I thought I’d pop in and share something near and dear to me. If you follow along with me on Facebook...

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Update your 70’s home with this DIY cedar porch column update! Easier than you think! Hello friends! Let’s talk house stuff today, shall we? Specifically, DIY Cedar wood porch columns. Gosh, I really wanted to do the final reveal for the house makeover and cedar porch columns once all the landscaping and new sidewalk situation...

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I’m sharing a bunch of napkin decoupage ideas today! Lots of things you can do with pretty napkins, the ideas are endless! Hello, beautiful friends! Let’s decoupage with napkins! If you’ve been around here any time at all, you know I love decoupaging with napkins. The design possibilities are just endless with them. And the...

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I’m sharing how to use UV Resin and how I made earrings with it, along with decorative napkins, using them as decoupage for the earrings! Hello friends! I’m back today, sharing all about the resin I used on my Air-Dry Clay bowls. Plus, I made some resin earrings using napkin decoupage. Fun fun! I’m loving...

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PetaPixel has been quietly updating its sample gallery for the last several months, but this week we added eight new galleries for Members to download, including extra-large folders of photos taken with the Panasonic Lumix L10 and the Sony a7R VI.

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Hello sweet friends! How many days until spring? OH, TWO!! Yay!! I am so beyond ready. And so sick of the cold this year. However, I really hope we get an actual spring, ya know?? Considering we’ve already had 80’s, I’d say it’s not looking good. lol With that in mind, I’m sharing the perfect...

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I gave the most simple update to these glass topped nesting tables! Hello sweet friends! It’s that Tuesday time again. Trashy Treasures Tuesday, that is. I’m sharing a cutie patootie little set of glass-topped nesting tables today. I found them at the ReStore, just sitting there so sad and wonky. But you know I brought...

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Leo Cloma posted a photo:

Grooved Marbletop Center Table

ca. 1860
Golden narra wood (“Pterocarpus indicus”)
White marble top from southern China
H: 31 3/4" (81 cm)
D: 43 1/2" (110 cm)

PROVENANCE
Made in Binondo, Manila found in Manila and adjacent provinces

The Ultimate Prestige of the Mutli-Grooved Marble-Top Table by AUGUSTO MARCELINO REYES GONZALEZ III

It was during the second half of the nineteenth century (1850–99) that every big “bahay-na-bato” in Las Islas Filipinas (Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao) had two round marbletop tables with tripod bases, which signified the high social status of the homeowners, be they hacenderos (plantation owners), merchants, or both. The standard baluster bases had capitals of either upright acanthus leaves or squashes in the 1860s, and the tripod feet were of ball–and–claw in the 1860s and, later in the 1880s, of alternating C-scrolls. The one with a plain molded marble top was placed in the middle of the “caida”/entrance hall, which was the family living room and the center of everyday life. The much more expensive one with multiple grooves on the sides of the marble top — the more grooves, the more expensive, therefore the richer the owner (according to the esteemed Filipiniana researcher and scholar Martin I Tinio Jr) — was placed in the center of the “sala”/living room, which was the formal reception room for important guests and occasions.

This stately round center table with well–articulated, robust carving features a marble top with three grooves from Southern China. The marble top is supported by a simple “cenefa” apron or round frame reinforced horizontally by two crossbars centered by a plinth set on the two long pegs at the top of the tripod base. The thick baluster base has a capital of upturned acanthus leaves and a ring of egg–and– dart motifs underneath. The tripod feet are adorned with stylized, upturned acanthus leaves punctuated with single catmon flowers and terminate with eccentric, indigenized, ball–and–claw feet that look more like human fingers with nails holding a ball — rather than Oriental dragon claws clutching a jewel or Western eagle talons clutching a pearl, or lion paws. This type of upturned acanthus–leaf capital table base, alternating with the squash capital baluster, as well as the indigenized tripod, ball–and–claw feet were the earliest designs when these tables first became available in the 1860s. That became evident when these kinds of tables were found in the older 1840s–1860s “bahay–na– bato” houses.

There are not many of these Filipino grooved marble- top tables extant. Only a few have passed through the Leon Gallery auctions in the last ten years. Many of the extant ones actually have traceable provenances to the “de buena familia” old Filipino families of Manila and the surrounding provinces. They carry the weight of Filipino history. For example, the Lacson–Araneta witnessed the bold proclamation of the Republica de Negros by General Aniceto Lacson during the Philippine Revolution. The Yaptinchay–Yatco saw the great prosperity of the Sangley community of Biñan, but also the grief and fear of the Mercado and Alonso–Alberto clans, indeed all of Binan and Calamba, when one of their own, Dr Jose Rizal, was executed in December 1896. The Arnedo–Sioco table observed the promising youth of Maximino Paterno, Antonio Paterno, Felix Resurreccion–Hidalgo, Jose Rizal, Juan Luna, et al as they played cards and other games on it with Ateneo Municipal schoolmates Cayetano, Macario, and Eugenio Arnedo during summer vacations at the “La Sulipena” villa in Apalit, Pampanga.

True, there are similar, antique grooved marble-top tables to be found in France, Spain , or England, but none of them have seen momentous events infused into all Filipino material culture.

STARTING BID: ₱ 600,000

Lot 145 of the Leon Gallery's
Spectacular Mid Year Auction 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026
G/F Eurovilla 1, Rufino corner Legazpi Street, Makati City

For more information and to place an online bid, please see leon-gallery.com and leonexchange.com

Hello beautiful friends!! I’m sharing a bunch of crafty fun today for Valentine’s Day. If you love crafting, you’ll love today’s post! If you love decoupage, you’ll love it. If you have kiddos or grandchildren, you’ll love this post, too. This is the perfect project post for a craft day with the littles. I hope...

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Une histoire bien triste que celle de ce petit château si noble et si beau, le temps n’épargne rien ni personne et il en est la preuve irréfutable...

This DIY Air Dry Clay is so simple to make! And fun to create with!! Lots of design ideas, the sky is the limit. Hello sweet friends! I’m sharing a brand-new craft today, something I’ve never done before. I love getting crafty! Have you heard of air-dry clay? Well, probably we all have, but have...

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I love trays, and I’m sharing my latest tray makeovers, 9 different ways! Hello, beautiful friends! I’m sliding in here on a Friday to share some of my favorite things to make over… TRAYS! Gosh, I have made over so many of them in the years here on the blog. I’ve done a bit of...

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