Lot Essay
Barnaba Chiaramonti was born at Cesena in the Pontifical States on 14 August 1740; elected at Venice 14 March 1800; and died 20 August 1823.
Details
Continental School, mid-19th Century
Pope Pius VII, in a white-bordered scarlet mozzetta and wearing a white zucchetto
mounted on the lid of a tortoiseshell-lined bonbonnière
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam.
Pope Pius VII, in a white-bordered scarlet mozzetta and wearing a white zucchetto
mounted on the lid of a tortoiseshell-lined bonbonnière
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) diam.
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