拍品 71
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A pair of fine framed Roman micromosaic plaques depicting flower still-lifes
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SIR ARTHUR GILBERT (lots 1-73)
A pair of fine framed Roman micromosaic plaques depicting flower still-lifes

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

細節
A pair of fine framed Roman micromosaic plaques depicting flower still-lifes
Third quarter 19th Century
Rectangular, each finely inlaid with a Renaissance style vase resting on a ledge, laden with a variety of summer blooms, within a gilt and gesso frame
The plaques: 19 5/8 x 15¾ in. (49.8 x 40 cm.) (2)
來源
With Galerie Jacques Kugel, Paris, 1973.
出版
J. H. Gabriel and A. M. Massinelli, The Gilbert Collection - Micromosaics, London, 2000, cat. no. 91, pp. 159-60.
展覽
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Gilbert Collection: Monumental Silver and the Art of Mosaics, 28 April-10 July, 1977.

拍品專文

In her commentary on an almost identical pair of micromosaics in the Gilbert Collection, London, Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel notes that despite frequently being included as border decoration for pictoral subjects featuring ruins, animals and people, flowers are rarely seen as large still-life compositions. Although unsigned, it is possible the present fine pair of plaques are the work of the mosaicist Federico Campaneli, who was one of the principal artists working at the Vatican workshops during the last quarter of the 19th century. Gonzàlez-Palacios has suggested that Campaneli's subjects were sometimes taken from the Dutch master Daniel Seghers (d. 1661), who in addition to painting flowers for the works of Rubens also independently executed numerous floral still-lifes (see A. Gonzàlez-Palacios and S. Röttgen, The Art of Mosaics - Selections from the Gilbert Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982, no. 97).