Lot 43
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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC
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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC

BY CAMILLO PICCIONI (FL. 1792-1826), MARKED, ROME, 1811-1815, THE MICROMOSAIC BY CLEMENTE CIULI, SIGNED, 'C. CIULI'

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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC
by Camillo Piccioni (fl. 1792-1826), marked, Rome, 1811-1815, the micromosaic by Clemente Ciuli, signed, 'C. Ciuli'
Circular green lavastone box with gold mounts, the independent cover inset with a rectangular micromosaic plaque depicting three ladies in classical attire in a landscape, one offering putti for sale, in gold mount chased with chevrons
2½ in. (64 mm.) diam.
Provenance
with Magaliff, Stockholm.
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Lot Essay

Ciuli is mentioned by Paul Marmottan (Les arts en Toscane sous Napoléon. La Princesse Elisa, Paris, 1901, p. 114) as one of the most celebrated Roman mosaicists during the period of the French occupation. Few mosaics by Ciuli have been recorded but a signed mosaic of a head of Bacchus on a snuff-box by Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette is in the Gilbert Collection (J. Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics, London, 2000, illustrated in colour, p. 100, no. 44) and another signed example of his work, the bust of Jupiter, on a snuff-box, is in the Museo Napoleonico, Rome.

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