Lot 7
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AN ITALIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
AN ITALIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

ROME, CIRCA 1810

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AN ITALIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
ROME, CIRCA 1810
rectangular gilt-metal mounted box of purple porphyry, the cover centred with a rectangular micromosaic plaque depicting a leaping leopard on a dark-blue ground
3 3/8 in. (87 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This study of an Asiatic leopard may well be by the mosaicist Filippo Puglieschi, working in Rome in the early 19th century. He specialised in the depiction of animals, with many of his subjects taken from the animal paintings of the artist Wenzel Peter (1742-1829). Peter was born in Karlsbad, now in the Czech Republic, before moving to live and work in Rome.

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