Strauss & co - 6 February 2012, Cape Town

235 Italian micro mosaic plaque, Luigi Cavaliere Moglia (fl. 1823-1878) rectangular black marble with canted corners, the micro mosaic depicting a seated spaniel, the reverse with mother-of-pearl, signed with initials LM, 4,2cmwide R15 000 – 20 000 Luigi Moglia of Rome was a most esteemed mosaicist. His workshop was located in 1856 at 134 via Babuino, Rome, subsequently moving to 42 via de Cestari in 1878. Among his earliest known works is a portrait miniature of Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846), now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Moglia was awarded a gold medal at the Great Exhibition in London 1851 for his Temple of Paestum . There are two further examples of his work in The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 234 An enamel pendant in Renaissance Revival style, circa 1880 enamelled with an allegorical scene of Charity, her right hand holding the hand of a young child and cradling a baby in her left arm, before an architectural framework embellished with polychrome enamels, annular suspension loop with three later collet-set moonstone drops R6 000 – 8 000 236 An Arts and Crafts amber, gem-set and silver brooch/ pendant, circa 1900 the oval pierced brooch cast with acorns, oak leaves and embellished with collet-set cabochon-cut stones, flanked by two heart-shaped carnelians, suspended with a detachable large acorn-shaped amber pendant capped by a conforming silver mount, length approximately 8cm R6 000 – 8 000 234 235 236 69