Details
A MICROMOSAIC OF THE ALTAR OF LOVE MOUNTED ON A SNUFF BOX
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The round plaquette within copper mount set into the cover of a circular porphry box ----- 2 3/8in. (6cm.) diameter
ROMAN, 19TH CENTURY
The round plaquette within copper mount set into the cover of a circular porphry box ----- 2 3/8in. (6cm.) diameter
Literature
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art of Mosaics: Selections from the Gilbert Collection, (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles, 1982, cat. no. 34 for a similar work which may have been produced in Giacomo Rafaelli's workshop