Lot Essay
For a similar depiction of a spaniel, signed Aguatti, see A. Gonzalez-Palacios and S. Röttgen, The Art of Mosaics, Selections from the Gilbert Collection, p.129, no.38.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A COLLECTION OF MICRO-MOSAICS
FOUR MICRO-MOSAIC PLAQUES DEPICTING A SPANIEL AND VIEWS OF ROME
Details
FOUR MICRO-MOSAIC PLAQUES DEPICTING A SPANIEL AND VIEWS OF ROME
Rome, 19th Century
Each oval, one depicting a brown and white spaniel, lying on grass, after Aguatti, horizontal split - 1 3/8in. (3.6cm.) long; one depicting St. Peter's, with figures, in silvered frame, late 19th Century - 2 3/8in. (6cm.) long; another smaller, depicting St. Peters's, in red stone border, border damaged - 1½in. (3.8cm.) long; and one depicting the Pantheon in landscape setting, in a silvered frame, after 1882 - 2in. (5.1cm.) long (4)
Rome, 19th Century
Each oval, one depicting a brown and white spaniel, lying on grass, after Aguatti, horizontal split - 1 3/8in. (3.6cm.) long; one depicting St. Peter's, with figures, in silvered frame, late 19th Century - 2 3/8in. (6cm.) long; another smaller, depicting St. Peters's, in red stone border, border damaged - 1½in. (3.8cm.) long; and one depicting the Pantheon in landscape setting, in a silvered frame, after 1882 - 2in. (5.1cm.) long (4)