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TTO 0146 Micromosaic Heart Pendant
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| TTO 0146 Micromosaic Heart Pendant |
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Roman Micromosaic Pendant. Heart-shaped, with three
teardrop pendants hanging below. The word 'Roma' is
picked out at the centre in tiny letter chips, the
predominant colours being green, lilac, yellow and
red. The whole is set into a brass mount and despite a
little ageing, is in wonderful condition with no
mosaics missing.
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Price: £65
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Heart is 7/8" wide, the drops 1 5/8". |
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.
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