ATTRIBUTED TO GIOACCHINO BARBERI, ROME, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Gioacchino Barberi (1772-1857) is famed for his extraordinary skill in depicting animals in micromosaic. Compare a micromosaic plaque, signed 'G Barberi' depicting a group of four spaniels (measuring 8.4 cm. wide, sold Christie’s, London, 1 December 2015, lot 292, £74,500), and a plaque depicting a fox and duck and a plaque with a Spanish pointer (illustrated Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, Micromosaics Private Collections, 2016, pl. 90, p. 132 and pl. 99, p. 138).