Antique Victorian Micromosaic & Wood Frame, Hand Mirror, Micro Mosaic interior no damage to note at

no damage to note at all

This is a mid-1800s French silver plate inkwell stand and pen holder (2) with the cutest figure of a French Poodle ever

Copeland (North Staffordshire) and dates between 1851-1885

and the bottoms of each have some surface scuffs and/or scratching

with round tie pin or lapel pin and the other two largish studs may well have been made to use as cufflinks

Antique Victorian Micromosaic & Wood Frame, Hand Mirror, Micro Mosaic interior no damage to note atI've just listed a 26" tall wall mirror framed in micro mosaic, and wrote a bit about the place in time of these Grand Tour souvenir treasures of Italy, and all I wrote there applies to this smaller wood frame basin micro mosaic hand mirror, too. Tiny pieces of colored glass, called tesserae, are worked piece by piece into the cement material spread into that deep recess in the wood, and over a great deal of time, a bouquet and elegant images take