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Lot 557
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Luigi Tarantoni late19th/early 20th century A Roman Micromosaic Plaque of a Cavalier Vatican mosaic workshop, circa 1880

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Luigi Tarantoni
  • plaque height 18 1/4 in.; width 10 1/4 in.
  • 46.4cm; 26cm
depicting a full length seventeenth century cavalier before an as yet unidentified coat of arms, signed lower right RSF Petri/Tarantoni. 

Literature

For a similar exemple see, J. H. Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection Micromosaics, London, 2000, p. 124, pl. 65.

Catalogue Note

Two micromosaic plaques of a cavalier by Tarantoni are in the Gilbert Collection and interestingly one of them (MM70) is virtualy identical to the present lot. The Gilbert Collection was formed over a thirty-five year period by the late Sir Arthur Gilbert and was given by the latter to the British nation, now the Museum of the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House, London.