Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 48 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION

A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA CIPRIANI, CIRCA 1860-70

Closed23 October 2018

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USD 27,500

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A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA CIPRIANI, CIRCA 1860-70
Depicting a putto in the guise of Bacchus with an attendant holding aloft a basket of grapes within a circular black ground, set within a square giltwood frame
13 ½ in. (34.2 cm.) diameter, the plaque

Specialist note

A related mosaic is illustrated in J. Hanisee Gabriel, Micromosaics: Private Collections, 2016, p. 84-85.