Details
A MICROMOSAIC OF A POINTER BARKING AT A CAT MOUNTED ON A SNUFF BOX
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular plaquette set into the cover of a rectangular red jasper box with canted corners, with gold mounts marked with contemporary Rome hallmark, interior of cover lined in tortoiseshell (box damaged) ----- 2¼ X 3¼in. (5.7 x 8.3cm.)
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular plaquette set into the cover of a rectangular red jasper box with canted corners, with gold mounts marked with contemporary Rome hallmark, interior of cover lined in tortoiseshell (box damaged) ----- 2¼ X 3¼in. (5.7 x 8.3cm.)
Literature
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art of Mosaics: Selections from the Gilbert Collection, (exhibition catalogue), Rome, 1982, cat. no. 44 for a similar scene attributed to Filippo Puglieschi