LONDON.- On Tuesday 6th July 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a remarkable example of 16th-century craftsmanship – an Italian rosewood table, inlaid with ivory and finely engraved. In 1989 this same piece sold at auction for £6,000. More recent research by Sotheby’s specialists has revealed that in fact the table has a history and provenance befitting of its quality: newly-discovered documents reveal that this remarkable piece was once part of the legendary Medici family collection. The table will now be offered with an estimate of £500,000 – 1,000,000. Probably made by a German craftsman working for the noble families in Italy, the table was commissioned some time between 1596 and 1598 by the Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549-1631). The