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The famous St Peter's Basilica in Rome dominates the centre of this table. Based on earlier engravings, the surrounding images contain some anachronisms. One mosaic depicts the Colosseum before its restoration in 1805.\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 circular micromosaic tabletop with a central round view of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in Rome showing the outstretched collonades of the Bernini designed <i>Piazza di San Pietro</i>, the scene framed with a Greek key pattern border and surrounded by twelve more rectilinear scenes of ancient Roman structures.  The table's gilt border is carved on top with double rows of egg-and-dart pattern, and fluted on the sides between four rosettes.  The partially gilded pedestal base is composed of three intertwined dolphins, their heads resting upon a tripod plinth with scrolling acanthus feet.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"mosaic glass","id":"AAT260731"},{"text":"gilt wood","id":"x35094"},{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"}],"techniques":[{"text":"micromosaic","id":"x42499"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Micromosaic and partially gilded wood","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2009CR4301","2009CP2580"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES343413"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"SR014","id":"THES341155"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"tabletop","id":""}],[{"text":"base","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Rome","id":"x29106"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1825-75","earliest":"1825-01-01","latest":"1875-12-31"},"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":"Diameter","value":"78.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"76.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Ivano Constantini, Rome, 1975.\n\nHistorical significance: Views of Italian monuments were the most popular subjects for micromosaic tables. This one includes in the centre an aerial view of St Peter's Baslica and its colonnades designed by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Around the border are views of the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli, the Forum of Nerva or Transitorium with portico and relief of Minerva, the Forum of Augustus, the Arch of Janus Quadrifrons, the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Temple of Vesta, the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman Forum, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, and the Capitoline Hill.\r\n\r\nThese views were taken from engravings and so the Colosseum is shown here before its restoration which began in 1805 and the Pantheon is shown without its bell towers which were only removed in 1882 but may have been omitted here for aesthetic reasons.","historicalContext":"Similar to tabletop from sale of Collection of Gianni Versace, Sotheby's, New York, May 21, 2005. 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'Collectors', <u>Forbes</u>, May 29, 1989, vol. 143, no.11, ill. p.18."},{"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. Cat. no. 73. 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. Cat. no. 80. ISBN 0875871097"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Carlton Hobbs, Carlton Hobbs LLC.  'On Tops'. <u>Catalogue Number Seven</u>. 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