IN THE MANNER OF PIETRO BOSSI

This type of inlay of coloured marble and scagliola on a white marble ground is attributed to Pietro Bossi, an Italian craftsman who is listed in the Dublin Directories as Inlayer in marble and Stucco Worker at 22 Fleet Street in 1785-86 and at 38 Fleet Street in 1787-98. It is believed that he may be the same Bossi working for John Augustus Richter in Dresden in 1765, who would have later moved with him to London working under the partnership of Bartoli and Richter. John Richter had taken out a patent for An Art or Method on inlaying Scagiola or Plaster in and upon Marble and Metals to imitate....all sorts of ornament in 1770 (no. 978).