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Lot Essay
Active during the second half of the 19th century, Federico Campanili specialised in flower and landscape panels. He is recorded as being active from 1861 to 1880 in the Vatican Workshop in Rome. Research at the Vatican archives by Dr. Daniel Pergolizi documents the production between 1858 and 1864 of different mosaics with Vasi con Fiori e picchi in smalti filait by Federico Campanili. The inventory number printed on the label on the back of the present mosaic identifies that it was sold on 21 May 1930 for It. Lire 18,000, as a pendant to another mosaic sold 20 March 1928 for the same sum.
Another mosaic of similar composition is the collection of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, inv. 10012899 (illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Las Colleciones Reales Espagnolas de Mosaicos y Piedras Duras, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2001, cat. 73, page 309). The present mosaic, as well as the one in the Prado, are probably drawn from still lifes painted by the Ferrarese painter, active in Rome, Alessandro Mantovani (1814-1892).
Another mosaic of similar composition is the collection of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, inv. 10012899 (illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Las Colleciones Reales Espagnolas de Mosaicos y Piedras Duras, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2001, cat. 73, page 309). The present mosaic, as well as the one in the Prado, are probably drawn from still lifes painted by the Ferrarese painter, active in Rome, Alessandro Mantovani (1814-1892).