A PAIR OF ROMAN MICROMOSAIC CIRCULAR PANELS
CIRCA 1840
One depicting the 'Capitoline Doves', the other allegorical of the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite with courting doves set against a shell and a coral display entwined with blue ribbon and adorned with an apple, both in gilt-gesso circular classical frames
panels 9 ½ in. (24 cm.) to site of frame; 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter of outer frame edge
A PAIR OF ROMAN MICROMOSAIC CIRCULAR PANELS
CIRCA 1840
One depicting the 'Capitoline Doves', the other allegorical of the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite with courting doves set against a shell and a coral display entwined with blue ribbon and adorned with an apple, both in gilt-gesso circular classical frames
panels 9 ½ in. (24 cm.) to site of frame; 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter of outer frame edge
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