THE TOP BY LUIGI CAVALIERE MOGLIA, ON AN ENGLISH WALNUT BASE, CIRCA 1855

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A Roman micromosaic gueridon
The top by Luigi Cavaliere Moglia, On an English walnut base, Circa 1855
The circular top centred by a roundel depicting Romulus and Remus with the wolf, inscribed L. MOGLIA, surrounded by eight panels depicting the Pantheon, St.Peter's Square, the Temple of Vesta, the Arch of Janus Quadrifrons, the Forum, the Campidoglio, the Colosseum and the Arch of Titus with a Greek-key design border, within a stepped circular frame with a plaque inscribed TO JOB MEIGH ESQ. AS A MEMORY OF AFFECTION & GRATITUDE FROM MARY & ELISABETH RINNESTRO 2ND NOV. 1860, another plaque with a coat-of-arms and the motto SENIGNO NUMINE, supported by four scroll legs, centred by a gadrooned vase-shaped finial, on four scroll feet, on castors
The micromosaic top: 39 1/8 in. (99.5 cm.) diameter;
The table: 45 in. (114 cm.) diameter; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) high

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拍品專文

The central micro-mosaic plaque depicts Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf. The model is taken from a painting by Rubens which is in the Capitoline Museum.
A similar table to this one is in the Hermitage collections, also with malachite veneer and eight views of Rome with at the center a similar roundel with some variations in the landscape.

Luigi Moglia is one of the most esteemed mosaicists of all time. His workshop was located at 134 via Babuino, Rome, in 1856.
In 1851 he was awarded a gold medal at the Great Exhibition in London for his Temple of Paestum. He also exhibited there two versions of The Pantheon, as well as The Colosseum, Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli, Square at St. Peter's in Rome and a version of Triumph of Love, a tabletop composition after the original by Michelangelo.
Some of Moglia's pieces are in the Château de Compiegne, at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and in the Cincinnati Museum of Art.