An Italian micromosaic and marble plaque depicting Romulus and Remus suckling the She-wolf, Roman, within a giltwood frame third quarter 19th century

There is a hairline crack to each of the four corners of the giltwood frame, very minor chips and cracks to the frame
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Comparative Literature:
J.H. Gabriel and others,The Gilbert Collection, Micromosaics, London, 2000, p. 165, no. 97.
The myth of Romulus and Remus according to legend were found on the banks of the Tiber and later became the founders of Rome.
There is in the Gilbert Collection, op. cit., p. 165, no. 97, a virtually identical piece with a very similar border originally in the Antonacci-Efrati collection, Rome, see fig. 1.

Two micromosaic table tops at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg have central compositions similar to this.