tabatière en pierre dure montée en or sertie d'une micromosaïque signée Calandrelli, la tabatière par Camillo Picconi, Rome, vers 1820

rectangulaire, la tabatière en serpentine verte, le fermoir à collerette ciselé d'un panier de fleurs, le panneau décoré d'une vue de l'Arc de Constantin bordé de feuilles, poinçon de maître et de la ville de Rome

rectangular, the box of green serpentine, the raised thumbpiece chased with a basket of flowers, the panel inlaid with a view of the Arch of Constantine within a leaf-tipped border, maker's mark and Rome town mark

collection Bulgari Rome label, micromosaic a little dirty but in very good condition, box has traces of glue where panel and mounts have been re-attached and slight gap to right of thumbpiece, haircrack at back left corner, but generally good impression.
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The mosaicist Calandrelli has been tentatively identified with the Roman gem-engraver Giovanni Calandrelli (working 1812-1832) but Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios's attribution to one Tomaso Calandrelli, recorded in the archives of the Reverenda Fabrica di S. Pietro around 1825, is now widely accepted (Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol.II, Los Angeles, 1999, p. 100).