Lot 242: A MICROMOSAIC AND GILT BRONZE WRITING SLOPE BY CESARE ROCCHEGGIANI, ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY

MEASUREMENTS

the underside stamped in gilt ''C. Rocchegiani, Roma, 36cm wide, 34cm deep and 16cm high

the fall inset with an oval panel of a rustic scene of two women outside a cottage conversing, with a river landscape in the distance, the interior with two ink bottles, lined with blue velvet, the front with five oval panels depicting The Pantheon, The Colosseum, St Peter's Square, The Forum andThe Temple of Vesta, the sides with foliate panels and a view of the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius

REFERENCE
The Gilbert Collection of Micromosaics, Gabriel J. Hanisee, pg. 289. Cesare Roccheggiani was active at the Vatican Workshops from 1856 to 1864.