Live Auction 7800Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 120

AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

ROME, CIRCA 1820

Closed17 November 2009

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GBP 10,000

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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

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906).
Thence by family descent.