The black slate top set with central micromosaic panel depicting St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, surrounded by malachite ring and further flanked by very fine micromosaic fruit and floral bouquets alternating with micromosaic reserves depicting the Roman ruins of the Colosseum, the Temple of Vespasian, the Pantheon, and the Temple of Hercules, the whole bound by gold and ultramarine blue micromosaic bands set with micromosaic reserves of butterflies and lustrous beetles.