Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A FRENCH GOLD PILL BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC
Lot 46

A FRENCH GOLD PILL BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC

THE BOX BY GABRIEL RAOUL MOREL (FL.1797-1832) MARKED, PARIS, 1809-1817; THE MICROMOSAIC, ROME, CIRCA 1810

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A FRENCH GOLD PILL BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC
THE BOX BY GABRIEL RAOUL MOREL (FL.1797-1832) MARKED, PARIS, 1809-1817; THE MICROMOSAIC, ROME, CIRCA 1810
Oval, the base and sides with matt and bright cut trelliswork, the cover set with a micromosaic of a recumbent liver and white spaniel in a landscape within foliate border, marked in base, cover and flange
11/4 in. (32 mm.) wide
gross weight 15 dwt. (24 gr.)

The Palmieri Collection; Christie's, London, 28 March 1996, lot 104.

Specialist note


Dogs were popular subjects in micromosaic and Antonio Aguatti's spaniel illustrated in J. Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics, London, 2000, p. 75, no. 23 was widely copied by other micromosaicists. Although the one presented here is unsigned it is made with a wide colour palette giving the composition a painterly quality.