LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pietra Dura

Size Notes:

cameo; box 2.6 x 7.4 cm

Description:

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Markings:

apparently unmarked, signed: MORELLI under the truncation

Literature:

Related Literature. G.A. Guattani, Memorie enciclopediche romane, Rome, 1807, ii, pp.8/10; R. Righetti, Incisori di gemme e cammei a Roma, Rome, 1954, pp. 50/1; G.C. Bulgari, Argentieri, gemmari e orafi d'Italia, Roma , ii, Rome, 1959, p. 178; Anna Maria Massinelli, Hardstones,- The Gilbert Collection, London, 2000, 152-155; Lucia Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, 'Nicola Morelli, Incisore in Pietre Dure, Accademico di Merito di S. Luca, Virtuoso del Pantheon', Bollettino dei Musei Comunali di Roma , 1992, vol.VI; Annamaria Giusti in exhibition catalogue, Arte e manufattura di Corte a Firenze, Florence, 2006(a); Annamaria Giusti, Pietre Dure and the Art of Florentine Inlay, London, 2006(b), Lucia Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, 'Hardstone Gem Engraving in Rome: the great flowering of the 18th and 19th centuries', exhibition catalogue, The Art of Gem Engraving, ed. Diana Scarisbrick, Japan, 2008, pp.319-322; Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, 'Florentine Snuffboxes' i n Murdoch & Zech, Going for Gold, Brighton, 2014, pp. 163-183

Provenance:

Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920);. Prince Victor Napoléon (1862-1926); Prince Louis Napoléon (1914-1997