1950s Venetian Micro Mosaic Oval retailer Bouquet Brooch

1950s Venetian Micro Mosaic Oval Bouquet Brooch.
A bouquet of flowers all in beautiful mosaics.
This is a superb example of a souvenir or tourist piece
from the 1950s ‘Grand Tour'.
Even these later pieces are very rare
A special example for a collector
Beautiful flower bouquet mosaic
This example is in wonderful antique condition
and measures 1 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/4 inches 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 retailer 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.