Antique Unmounted Victorian Era Italian Micro Mosaic in Goldstone, The Coliseum, Adventurine American portrait miniature with a slight lift to

with a slight lift to the silver cartouche that centers the front and onto which monogram might be engraved

Stones capture so much light

the box is exceptionally nice

vintage item has not so much as a tiny nip on the crisply cut edge

head down but muscles taught

Antique Unmounted Victorian Era Italian Micro Mosaic in Goldstone, The Coliseum, Adventurine American portrait miniature with a slight lift toThe Roman coliseum as subject, this large and fine and unused mid 1800s Italian micro mosaic comes from a rather large stash I bought as a Paris goldsmith's estate was auctioned off. Everything from jeweler's tools to unmounted stones, cameo, micro mosaics. You see some of them in the final photos I've sold off a lot of others those are the remainders I'd kept. You are buying just one this oval goldstone basin simple coliseum from The Forum, Roman