Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 229

AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

ROME, CIRCA 1790/1800

Closed27 November 2013

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AN ITALIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
ROME, CIRCA 1790/1800
circular grey porphry box with chased gold mounts, the cover set with a circular micromosaic plaque depicting a colourful bird and butterfly perched on a branch, pale blue background within a red, white and dark blue tesserae border
2½ in. (65 mm.) diam.

Specialist note

A similar bird micromosaic signed by Giacomo Raffaelli, 1783, is illustrated in D. Petochi, I mosaici minuti Romani dei secoli XVIII e XIX, Rome, 1981, p. 181, no. 8.