1930s Venetian Micro Mosaic Oval outlet Bouquet Brooch with Filigree Frame

1930s Venetian outlet Micro Mosaic Oval Bouquet Brooch
with Filigree Frame
A bouquet of flowers
in beautiful mosaics stamped MADE IN ITALY.
This is a superb example of a souvenir or tourist piece
from the 1950s ‘Grand Tour'.
Even these later pieces are very rare these days.
This example is in wonderful antique condition
measures 4.5 cms wide by 3.5 cms deep.



There are several types of Italian mosaics: Venetian, Roman and Florentine.

In Venetian designs, the artisans used a wide variety of shapes in the glass tiles to form the design.

In the Roman design very tiny pieces of colored glass, call tesserae, were pieced together to form a picture, and were held in place with cement in a glass or stone background.

In the Florentine design pietra dura (literally, “hard stone”) were cut, shaped and fitted together, somewhat like a jigsaw puzzle to produce a picture. These normally used a bed of black marble as the foundation so they have a black background. Florentine designs normally used larger tiles.