Property from a Private Collection, Westchester County, New York
A Large Italian Micromosaic Table Top, Rome, Second Quarter, 19th Century
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April 12, 05:11 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Westchester County, New York
A Large Italian Micromosaic Table Top, Rome
Second Quarter, 19th Century
depicting a delicate flower arrangement in a basket with two doves within an elaborate Greek key border, on a modern carved walnut low table
diameter of table top 39 1/2 in.; height of table 17 1/2 in.; diameter of table 44 in.
100.5 cm; 70.8 cm; 113 cm
Related Literature:
J.H Gabriel, 2000 Cat. No. 71, p. 133
A Gonzalez-Palacios, 1977 Cat. No. 72, pp. 106/107
A Gonzalez-Palacios, 1982 Cat. No. 79, p. 179
A.C. Sherman, 1971 Cat. No. XXIII, p. 47
The subject of this panel is inspired by Ancient mosaics, namely a floor depicting a basket of flowers in the Pio Clementino Museum of the Vatican (inv. no. MC0402).
The celebrated Roman mosaic Doves of Pliny excavated from Hadrian's villa in Tivoli in 1737 is a recurrent motif in 19th Century mosaics and might also have provided inspiration for the motif of the present lot.
A comparable slightly smaller table top without this extensive Greek Key border from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert collection was sold at Sotheby's London, Stone, 4 December 2019, Lot 1 (GBP 47, 500).
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