Lot 424 :
Sold for £5,100 hammer
Estimate £1,500-£2,500
A 19th Century micromosaic attributed to Antonio Aguatti (d 1846) depicting a procession with Apollo in his Celestial chariot preceded by Dawn (Aurora) bringing light to the world surrounded by supporters, after the fresco by Guidi Reni (1575 - 1642) all in fine tesserae and mounted within a rectangular frame width of mosaic is 7.2cm x height 3.8cm. Notes: This fresco is in the Pallavicini-Rospigliosi Palace in Piazza Monte Cavallo, Rome. The 19th Century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) relayed his impressions to his wife in 1858 'we went into a large room on the ground floor and looking up beheld Guidos Aurora. The picture is as fresh and brilliant as if he had painted it with the morning sunshine which it represents'. This depiction in micromosaics is not a common theme, three are known in private collections and another is in the Hammond Museum New York State
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