Antique Victorian Micro Mosaic Brooch Doves Flowers Silver

Product Details For Antique Victorian Micro Mosaic Brooch Doves Flowers Silver

This beautiful Victorian Micro Mosaic brooch is superb

Steeped in history a lovely brooch that has superb detail

Set in sterling silver with beautiful mosaic tile workmanship

Depicting a dove in the centre which is in flight.

Beautiful floral workmanship on each shoulder of the Dove,

lovely deep red tile workmanship from the 1860's

All original, a true collectors item

Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic

that uses unusually small mosaic pieces (tesserae) of glass, or in later Italian

pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images.

Surviving ancient Roman mosaics include some very finely worked panels

using very small tesserae, especially from Pompeii,

but only from Byzantine art are there mosaic icons in micromosaic with

tesserae as small as the best from the Modern period.

Weighs 7.6 grams

Measures 2.2 inches across

The central Dove section measures 22mm this includes the two silver

balls which are decorated top and bottom of the Dove

The Dove itself measures 13mm across

ITEM NUMBER 6351