Description
Important Venetian mirror decorated with micro-mosaic cartouches
featuring flowers, roses and foliage in light relief on a gold smaltis
background, and mirror cartouches engraved with floral motifs. Each
cartouche is surrounded by fine twisted glass rods, separated by glass
flowers. The technique employed is of extraordinary virtuosity. This
mirror was made in Venice, Italy, around 1865, at a time when Italian
micro-mosaics were renowned throughout Europe.