Grand Tour Michelangelo cameo paperweight book

Fascinating late 19th century Grand Tour paperweight in form of a decorated book with a central cameo style relief of the artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo in white alabaster. The book is carved in a slightly translucent 'Alabastro ghiaccione del Circeo' with delicate etched filigree patterns to represent tooling on a book and inscribed 'Michelangelo' under the cameo. italy, circa 1890.

H 10.5cm x W 7.25cm x D 2cm

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