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| Keywords: Italian - Boar Hunt in Spring - Walters 4321.jpg Micromosaics crafted from miniature glass tesserae mosaic tiles decorated paperweights boxes and brooches which were popular as tourist art and souvenir jewelry 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 early Other date century 19 gold glass tesserae cm 3 9 6 51 accession number 43 21 9616 Kosmak Collection Walters Art Museum Gift of Miss Katharine Kosmak and Mr George Kosmak 1975 Signed lower center A Jusitti 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 2006-2009 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry El Paso Museum of Art El Paso 2010 place of origin San Pietro in Vaticano Holy See Vatican City Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Micromosaics Boar hunting in art | ||||
