Miniature: extremely high-quality, important gold/enamel work with loupe painting, Alessandro Cittadini Rome 1856 Approx. 55 x 50mm, approx. 25g, 18K gold, frame enamelled and set with large paste stones in old cut, oval miniature, painted on mother-of-pearl, top quality, signed and dated 1856. Alessandro Cittadini was an important miniature painter in Italy and worked until approx. 1860. The rarity of the object presented here is the execution in gold.

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