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All auctions / Silver & Gold / Fabulous Demi-Parure With Micromosaics in Gold, Rome ca. 1857
Ancient micromosaics never cease to arouse the admiration of today's viewers. With what effort the tiniest stones were once so artistically assembled that entire landscapes and cityscapes were created! Throughout the 19th century, micromosaics from Rome were among the most popular souvenirs and found their way across the Alps in the luggage of travellers on the Grand Tour. This excellent demi-parure is one such early travel souvenir. The set consists of a brooch and matching earrings and presents a total of five fine micromosaics with views of the Eternal City and its surroundings. For example, the brooch shows a view of St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square enclosed by Bernini's colonnades. Around the central obelisk, moreover, we even see the gas lighting installed in 1854, of which one was particularly proud as a technical achievement and which none of the later mosaics of the place does without. The two long earrings each present two further micromosaics. They each show a diamond-shaped ornamental element with an inset oval mosaic attached under the earwires with chains. We see here a view of the Pantheon as well as the Roman Forum. All mosaics of the demi-parure are set in black glass and are held by plain frames of gold. The hallmark reveals that the demi-parure was created in the Papal States before 1860, so we can narrow down the period of creation to six years, between 1854 and 1860, based on the gas lighting already shown. The jewellery set, preserved in its original box, is not only for collectors of Grand Tour memorabilia, a possibility to dream oneself into the Eternal City.
Estimate:£1,681.87
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