Antique 19th Century Italian Micro Mosaic 18k Mounted Flower and Dove Pendant, Grand Tour Souvenir 19th century painting The composition is as fine

The composition is as fine and interesting as is the control of shadow and lighting with addition of chalk or white conte crayon

a late 1700s French snuff box

The silk panel has been matted and framed in a very nice antique frame that might well have been its original

In her final years

Can be worn as a large pendant on a velvet ribbon

Antique 19th Century Italian Micro Mosaic 18k Mounted Flower and Dove Pendant, Grand Tour Souvenir 19th century painting The composition is as fineSelling off my own lifelong collections, and I had loads of Victorian to Georgian Grand Tour micro mosaic plaques and jewelry. Some perfect and some, like this one, just short of perfect. While this beautiful pendant is wearable and lovely, and very pretty from the face side, mounted in a pendant mount with 18k gold bale, though the frame tests lower K, so likely modified with an added bale at some point. From the backside, you can see that there has