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BONBONNIERE ALLEMANDE OU STEINKABINETTABATIERE EN OR, PIERRES DURES ET MICROMOSAIQUE

Starting price
€ 300 000
Auction dateClassic
22.11.2022 16:00UTC +02:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
France, Paris
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ID 859327
Lot 11 | BONBONNIERE ALLEMANDE OU STEINKABINETTABATIERE EN OR, PIERRES DURES ET MICROMOSAIQUE
BONBONNIERE ALLEMANDE OU STEINKABINETTABATIERE EN OR, PIERRES DURES ET MICROMOSAIQUE

PAR JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDE, VERS 1790; LA MICROMOSAIQUE PAR GIACOMO RAFAELLI, ROME, VERS 1785-1790

Circulaire, formant cabinet minéralogique en rayons droits composés de cinquante-sept échantillons de pierres dures comprenant agates, cornaline, calcédoine, jaspe, améthyste et quartz, montés à jour dans d'étroites bandes d'or gravées de rubans et numérotées, le couvercle centré d'une large micromosaïque figurant un papillon polychrome de profil posé sur une branche sur un fond blanc bordé de tesselles rouges, blanches et noires, dans un cadre en or fileté, la base également formée de panneaux trapézoïdaux rayonnants en pierres dures autour d'un panneau central circulaire d'agate tigrée

D.: 82 mm. (3 1/4 in.)





Provenance

Collection privée portugaise.



Literature

J.A. Lehninger, Description de la ville de Dresde ... et de ses environs, Dresde, 1782, p. 337.

W. Holzhausen, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresde, 1935.

J.L. de Rambures, "L'orfèvre minéralogiste Neuber", in Connaissance des Arts, Août 1970, pp. 40-47.

J. H. Gabriel, Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection, Philip Wilson, Londres, 2000.

G. Cummins, Antique Boxes, Inside and Out, Antique Collectors Club, 2006.

A. Kugel ed., Gold, Jasper and Carnelian, Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, Londres, 2012, no. 114, p. 354.



Post lot text

A FINE SAXON GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE STEINKABINET BONBONNIERE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC, BY PAR JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1790; THE MICROMOSAIC BY GIACOMO RAFAELLI, ROMA, CIRCA 1790
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