Live auction - Lot 45
[Object of Virtue - Nacre]
"Amor Praetiosior Auro".
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
18th c
Nacre, diameter 6,5 x 8,1 cm, unsigned.
Oval nacre with emblematic allegorical scene. A sacrifice is made on the altar of Venus and Mars. A text in banderole above reads "Amor [est] Praetiosior Auro" (Love counts for more than gold), taken fom Cato's poems. Most probably the lid of a tobacco box.
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