PLATE FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18th CENTURY Attributed to Amedeo Seyter In scagliola with red monochrome decoration, depicting the Trajan column and the Church of Santa Maria di Loreto, in an imitation marble surround, an escutcheon bearing the coat of arms of the Bucelli family and the monogram G.B.P at the bottom, in a later painted wood frame Size (unframed): 58 × 46 cm (22 ¾ × 18 in.) Provenance: Sale in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 February 2013, lot 108 ; Sotheby's Milan sale, 26 September 2025, lot 224 ; Acquired by the current owner during the latter sale. Comparative bibliography : A. M. Massinelli, Scagliola l'arte della Pietra di luna, Rome, 1997, p. 159, figs. 101-101a. An Italian armorial scagliola panel, first hald of the 18th century, attributed to Amedeo Seyter, with the coat of arms of the Bucelli family of Rome The scagliola technique was invented to compete with the costly marble inlays developed since the 16th century in the Opificio delle pietre dure in Florence. Our panel can be attributed to the Seyter (or Seytter) family, active in Rome and Turin at the end of the seventeenth century and in the first half of the following century, and in particular to Amedeo (active between 1712 and 1734), who distinguished himself in the creation of trompe-l'œil paintings simulating sanguine drawings in frames imitating marble, such as the example we have here. Works belonging to the Seyter corpus are rare; for example, a set of eleven paintings by Pietro (1687-?) and his son Amedeo (active between 1712 and 1734) Seyter sold at Sotheby's London on 6 July 2010, lot 12, or a pair of panels attributed to Amedeo in the Daninos collection in Florence (illustrated in A.M. Massinelli, ibid.). The subject is taken from an engraving by Giovanni Battista Falda (cf. fig. 1), while the coat of arms in the lower part of the panel is that of the Bucelli family of Rome ("d'azzurro al bove passante sulla campagna sormontato da tre gigli, ordinati in fascia, il tutto in oro"). In particular, the monogram GPB (cf. fig. 2) could refer to Pietro Bucelli (1684-1754), known for having built up one of the most important collections of Etruscan antiquities of the period.