Lot 28
28
A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE SET ON AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE
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A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE SET ON AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE

CIRCA 1800

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A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE SET ON AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE
CIRCA 1800
Circular striated marble box with plain gold mounts, the independent cover inset with a circular micromosaic plaque depicting a rooster standing on his right leg in profile to the left on a grassy ground, against a blue background, in a reeded gold mount
3 in. (75 mm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

Domenico Petochi (Mosaici Minuti Romani dei secoli XVIII e XIX, Rome, 1981, p. 185, no. 28) illustrates the matching micromosaic portrait of a hen in similar pose facing left, mounted on a slightly larger dark box.

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