{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O157757"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O157757/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CR4385/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CR4385/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2009CR4385","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London/ © the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2009CP2605","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London/ © the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O157757/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O157757","accessionNumber":"LOAN:GILBERT.85:1, 2-2008","objectType":"Table","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"The four-sided pieces (tesserae) of this early micromosaic create a more linear effect than the subtler gradations of later micromosaics, which use smaller pieces of varied shapes and sizes. The realistic depiction of the poultry was inspired by the Dutch artist Melchior d'Hondecoeter (about 1636-95).\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"A rectangular tabletop inlaid with a mosaic edged in verde antico marble. The central oval reserve of the mosaic, framed by a band of Vitruvian scrolls, depicts two hens on the left and a cockerel on the right, their beaks lowered to the ground. In the left background is a distant mountain and in the middle background, low foliage. The remaining ground is composed of scrolling acanthus arabesques with two large and two small blue rosettes on each end, all within a Greek-key pattern trompe l'oeil border.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"mosaicist","id":"AAT25276"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"mosaic glass","id":"AAT260731"},{"text":"gilt wood","id":"x35094"},{"text":"marble","id":"AAT11443"}],"techniques":[{"text":"micromosaic","id":"x42499"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Glass micromosaic, marble and gilt wood (pine).","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CR4385","2009CP2605"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES340826"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES342706"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"tabletop","id":""}],[{"text":"base","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Rome","id":"x29106"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"},{"place":{"text":"Turin","id":"x32500"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1775-1785","earliest":"1775-01-01","latest":"1785-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"125","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"63","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"155","unit":"kg","qualifier":"Weight includes T Frame","date":{"text":"15/08/2024","earliest":"2024-08-15","latest":"2024-08-15"},"part":"Marble Top","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Signed PELLICEA","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Beneath the lower left of the reserve"}],"objectHistory":"This table top served as a companion to a Gilbert hardstone table; both were in the collection of Alfred de Rothschild at Halton, Buckinghamshire, and possibly acquired by Alfred from Baron Lionel de Rothschild, for whom the matching 19th century giltwood stands are thought to have been made.\n\nHistorical significance: This is one of the earliest mosaics in the Gilbert Collection and illustrates a transitional phase in technique. Using a limited colour range, the four-sided mosaic tesserae are arranged in linear patterns used in antique mosaics.","historicalContext":"Don Giacomo Pellizza or Pellicea, was in Turin around 1778 when he was instructor 'in the art of composing mosaics' to Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia (1726-1796), whose territories extended to Turin. \r\nIn June 1785, Victor Amadeus III presented a group of gifts to Ferdinand IV, King of Naples (1751-1825), on the occasion of the latter's visit to Turin, including a mosaic table, after a design by the court painter Ludovico Tesio (1731-1782) (Martin Chapman, 'A Diplomatic Gift from Turin', <i>European Royal Tables - International Symposium</i>, Lisbon, 1999, pp. 72-85). \r\nWhile there is no record, nor description, of that table, two other examples signed by Pellicea are still in this Palazzo Reale in Turin: one very similar, but with a central scene depicting three doves picking a bunch of grape, after an antique scene by the sculptor Prassitele (No. 00201564), and one with a view of Castel Sant'Angelo (Turin) within a geometrical border (No.0100202170). Both mosaics were confiscated by the French in 1798 but transferred back from Paris in 1811 - 1815 in the Royal Appartments where they have stayed since then. \r\n(Catalogo Generale Dei Beni Culturali.it)","briefDescription":"Micromosaic, marble, and gilt wood table with rooster and hens, Rome or Turin, Don Giacomo Pellicea, 1775-85.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Davis, Charles. <u>A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild</u>, 2 vols.  London: [Chiswick Press] 1884, vol. II, no. 237."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gonzalez- Palacios, Alvar. <u>The Art of Mosaics: Selections from the Gilbert Collection</u>.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977. 143 p., ill. under Cat. no. 16. ISBN: 0875870805"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar and Steffi Röttgen with essays by Steffi Röttgen, Claudia Przyborowski; essays and new catalogue material translated by Alla Theodora Hall. <u>The Art of Mosaics: Selections from the Gilbert Collection</u>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982. 224 p., ill. under Cat. no. 17. ISBN 0875871097."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gabriel, Jeanette Hanisee with contributions by Anna Maria Massinelli and essays by Judy Rudoe and Massimo Alfieri. <u>Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection</u>. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. in association with The Gilbert Collection, 2000. 310 p., ill. Cat. no. 3, pp. 53-54. ISBN 0856675113."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"Mosaic after a design by Ludovico Tesio (1731-82).","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"rooster","id":"x30202"},{"text":"hens","id":"x35667"},{"text":"acanthus","id":"AAT164902"},{"text":"arabesques","id":"AAT10206"},{"text":"rosettes","id":"AAT9972"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Table with roosters and hens\r\n1775-85\r\n\r\nThe four-sided pieces (tesserae) of this early micromosaic create a more linear effect than the subtler gradations of later micromosaics, which use smaller pieces of varied sizes and shapes. The realistic depiction of the poultry was inspired by the Dutch Baroque artist Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636-95).\r\n\r\nRome or Turin, Italy; mosaic by Don Pellicea da Tortona (active 1775-85) \r\nGlass micromosaic, marble and gilded wood\r\nMuseum no. Loan:Gilbert.85:1,2-2008.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["LOAN:GILBERT.85:1-2008","LOAN:GILBERT.85:2-2008"],"accessionNumberNum":"85","accessionNumberPrefix":"LOAN:GILBERT","accessionYear":2008,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Exhibition number","id":"THES288584"},"number":"17 (Monumental Silver and the Art of Mosaics exhibition 1977)"},{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"MM 212"},{"type":{"text":"Arthur Gilbert Number","id":"THES50383"},"number":"SG 322"},{"type":{"text":"The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House","id":"THES50384"},"number":"1999.25"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","tabletop","base"],"assets":["2018LC0269","2019LM5481","2019LN9392","2019LT8558","2019LX0835"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-01","recordCreationDate":"2008-06-26","availableToBook":false}}