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Jewelry
Micromosaic Necklace
Italian artist
Italian artist
Italy
Primary
1 x 16 15/16 x 3/8 in. (2.5 x 43 x 1 cm)
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overall
overall
Glass
Glass
ca. 1840
1835
1845
1800-1900, 19th century, architecture in art, enamels, glass, jewelry, mosaic
Jewelry
This intricate souvenir jewelry set features 15 different Roman architectural wonders commonly visited by Grand Tourists, including the Pantheon, the Colosseum, St. Peter’s, the Forum Romanum, and the Column of Trajan. The small scenes are produced in micromosaic, using tiny oblong tesserae of glass and stone in numbers up to 1,400 per square inch. Micromosaic jewelry remained fashionable in Europe through the mid-1870s.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
1929.79a
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
29.79DI#1
digital image
29.77-.79
8/15/2007
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29.79aDI#2
digital image
10/29/2012
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