Lot 108
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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800

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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800
circular striated marble box with plain gold mounts, the independent cover inset with a circular micromosaic plaque depicting a cockerel standing on his right leg in profile to the left on a grassy ground, against a blue background, in a reeded gold mount
3 in. (75 mm.) diam.
Provenance
Christie's, London, 6 December 2005, lot 28.

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Lot Essay

D. Petochi, Mosaici Minuti Romani dei secoli XVIII e XIX, Rome, 1981, p. 185, no. 28, illustrates the corresponding micromosaic portrait of a hen in similar pose facing left, mounted on a slightly larger dark box.

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