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Uncommon Grand-Tour micro-mosaic bracelet


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eNum: 4712.EDEN.1332

This rare bracelet was made c1840-50, and is set in the finest eighteen-carat yellow gold. It consists of seven interlinked individual panels.
This would have been a typical Grand-Tour souvenir, for the aristocrats visiting Italy, Greece, as they did in the nineteenth century.
The panels depicts different scenes in Rome, on a background of lapis lazuli, and each is made from multiple tiny pieces of marble: there is no paint applied. This is why it is called “micro-mosaic.”

A very difficult puzzle to put together, and an amazing feat to have survived to this day in such beautiful pristine condition!

(You can find this item in the category Wonders, as well as Bracelets)