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Mosaics > Micromosaics

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Micromosaics  

Definition(s)

  • Term coined by collector Sir Arthur Gilbert to describe late 18th-19th c. mosaics made of very tiny tiles called "smalti filati", or microtesserae; used to reproduce works of art, in jewelry, on small boxes and tabletops, and in small portraits [Hiserote]

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Notation

  • 118857

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-GNTW717G-M

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