A 19TH CENTURY MICROMOSAIC BANGLE

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A 19TH CENTURY MICROMOSAIC BANGLE
The broad hinged bangle with fine bead and ropework decoration, the front set with a rectangular micromosaic panel depicting Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, flying before the chariot of Apollo, with the clouds of night rolling away before them, the reverse with applied letters spelling ROMA, each character raised on a navette shaped cream micromosaic ground, circa 1870, inner diameter 5.9cm, original fitted case

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Lot Essay

This micromosaic is after the fresco painted by Guido Reni, circa 1614, at the Casino Rospiglioso, Palazzo Pallavicini, Rome. It remained a popular subject, being reproduced consistently throughout the mid-late 19th century.

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