Antique Victorian Era Italian Micro Mosaic 8.5" Picture Frame, Flowers & Foliage on Vivid Blue Mat
Fabulous antique Victorian or Napoleon III era Italian micro mosaic (micromosaic) 8 3/8" picture frame, a lovely garland of flowers & foliage top & bottom set in a vivid blue or turquoise mat! Looking for something completely unrelated in our warehouse, I found a small crate with several fantastic micro mosaic pieces in it. It was a little like Christmas :). All of them needed just a little bit of help, a few missing glass tiles or "tesserae", so I brought them home and fixed them up a bit and will be adding them over the next week or so. Grand Tour souvenir treasures of Italy. Tiny pieces of colored glass, called tesserae, are worked piece by piece into the cement material spread into the frame's bronze inner recess and over a great deal of time, a bouquet and elegant images take form. The uniqueness of the art a legacy that goes back to Byzantine and Roman times. This one gorgeous, the sea blue coloring with twisted wire inner & outer bands is so attractive and the o