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Boar Hunt in Spring
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Micromosaics crafted from miniature glass tesserae (mosaic tiles) decorated paperweights, boxes, and brooches, which were popular as tourist art and "souvenir jewelry." Royal courts commissioned larger scale items, such as tables. The Vatican workshops were largely responsible for their production and featured many examples as part of the Vatican's contribution to 19th-century expositions. The mosaics often represent genre scenes or scenic landscapes, like this box, showing the boar hunt.
Antonio Aguatti, alongside Giacomo Raffaelli, pioneered the technique of micromosiac. Thie box is "signed" "Aguatti" at the bottom centre. The design was by Johan Wenzel Peter.
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Provenance
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Kosmak Collection; Walters Art Museum, 1975, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 2010 | Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. |
| 2006-2009 | Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Italy, Holy See (Vatican City), San Pietro in Vaticano (Place of Origin)
Measurements
1 9/16 x 2 9/16 in. (3.9 x 6.51 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katharine Kosmak and Mr. George Kosmak, 1975
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
43.21