Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Card or Cake Tray: Osborne House Eglomise Painting cordial even after all these centuries

even after all these centuries

each hand painted with great talent on fine old silk

as you can see in the images

this one is lush with fringe all around (some missing here or there)

but it's not what the item is

Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Card or Cake Tray: Osborne House Eglomise Painting cordial even after all these centuriesHere's a fabulous antique souvenir of Osborne House (info added on this site): this is one that would have been a Victorian era souvenir of the Grand Tour visitor's trip to Osborne House, a Royal retreat in England. One might almost imagine the tiny painted figures there on horseback to be some of those Royals. The back painted glass or 'eglomise' miniature painting has a pearl underlayment which makes the building shimmer in light. The architectural