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circular micromosiac plaque depicting a strutting rooster on a grassy bank, against a black background and within a gilt-metal border and black lacquer outer frame
2½ in. (62 mm.) diam.
5 in. (125 mm.) wide including frame


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D. Petochi, Mosaici Minuti Romani dei secoli XVIII e XIX, Rome, 1981, p. 185, no. 28, illustrates the corresponding micromosaic portrait of a hen in similar pose facing left, mounted on a slightly larger dark box. Christie's sold a similar micromosiac in these rooms, An Iberian Collection Part I - Important Gold Boxes & Objects of Vertu, 8 December 2011, lot 108.

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