Live Auction 15492The Collector: Silver & 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 645

AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

ATTRIBUTED TO GIOACCHINO BARBERI, ROME, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed14 November 2018

Price Realised

GBP 17,500

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AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOACCHINO BARBERI, ROME, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Rectangular plaque depicting a leashed deerhound in a rocky landscape inset into a copper back within a husked gilt-bronze frame mount
4 ½ (11 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.5 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Gioacchino Barberi (1772-1857) is famed for his extraordinary skill in depicting animals in micromosaic. Compare a micromosaic plaque, signed 'G Barberi' depicting a group of four spaniels (measuring 8.4 cm. wide, sold Christie’s, London, 1 December 2015, lot 292, £74,500), and a plaque depicting a fox and duck and a plaque with a Spanish pointer (illustrated Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, Micromosaics Private Collections, 2016, pl. 90, p. 132 and pl. 99, p. 138).