Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 524 ANOTHER PROPERTY

AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

CIRCLE OF GIACOMO RAFFAELLI (1753-1836), ROME, CIRCA 1800

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 6,250

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AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
CIRCLE OF GIACOMO RAFFAELLI (1753-1836), ROME, CIRCA 1800
circular plaque depicting a brown and white hound seated on grass, looking over his left shoulder, against a black background within a red and white tesserae pellet border
1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) diam.

Specialist note

The subject in this micromosaic, which can be seen in many differing guises appears to have originated with Giacomo Raffaelli (1753-1836). Several micromosaics after the same composition are illustrated in D. Petochi, M. Alfieri and M. Grazia Branchetti, I mosaici minuti Romani dei secoli XVIII e XIX, Rome, 1981, figs. 19-22.