Sale 7800
London
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17 November 2009
Price realised
GBP 10,000
Estimate
AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE ROME, CIRCA 1820 Rectangular, depicting three hounds attacking a wild boar with a wounded black hound rampant against a riverbank-landscape, in the manner of Frans Snyders (1579-1657), within gilt-metal waterleaf and tongue stamped mount 3 in. (77 mm.) wide
Provenance
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906). Thence by family descent.
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