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oval gold-mounted brooch set with a micromosaic plaque depicting the Colosseum in Rome with figures in the foreground, within a red and white tesserae border
1¾ in. (48 mm.) wide


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The plaque shows the western side of the Colosseum which houses a cipollino marble slab decorated with a cottarello marble cross laid there by the will of Benedict XIV in 1750.

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