Details
A MICROMOSAIC OF THE TEMPLE OF THE SIBYL AT TIVOLI MOUNTED ON A SNUFF BOX
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The round plaquette set within copper mount into the cover of a circular green porphyry box with copper liner (mosaic cracked) ----- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) diameter
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The round plaquette set within copper mount into the cover of a circular green porphyry box with copper liner (mosaic cracked) ----- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) diameter
Literature
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art of Mosaics: Selections from the Gilbert Collection, (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles, 1982, cat. no. 48 for a similar scene executed by a private Roman workshop in the early 19th century