AN ITALIAN MICRO-MOSAIC AND SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE TOP, the circular top inlaid with a central medallion of butterflies flanking a lyre, within a slate border inset with thirty-five further variously-sized medallions depicting insects, in a malachite and stiff-ribbon outer border, 19th Century
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AN ITALIAN MICRO-MOSAIC AND SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE TOP, the circular top inlaid with a central medallion of butterflies flanking a lyre, within a slate border inset with thirty-five further variously-sized medallions depicting insects, in a malachite and stiff-ribbon outer border, 19th Century
171cm. (43cm.) diam.
Lot Essay
Related mircro-mosaic panels of butterflies are discussed in D Petochi,'Mosaici minuti Romani', Rome, 1981, p. 186, nos. 32-7.