BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA GATTI (1816-1889)

Details

An Italian ivory and ebony inlaid table casket
By Giovanni Battista Gatti (1816-1889)
With entwined foliate engraved borders overall, the stepped cover with roundels of views of Rome, the specimen bosses principally of lapis lazuli, flourspar and porphyry, stamped to underside G.B.GATTI
12¾in. (32.4cm.) high, 23½in. (59.6cm.) wide, 18in. (45.7cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The interior of the box has roundels of Romulus and Remus and another of a cat, the later the meaning of his own surname in Italian.
Gatti studied in both Rome and Florence before establishing his workshop in Faenza in the 1870's. Due to ill-health he stopped working in 1881. He was awarded for his exhibits at the international exhibitions of the period: a diplome d'honneur at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle; at the Internationale Ausstellung in Vienna in 1873; and a gold medal at the Universelle, Paris in 1878.

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