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Vintage Micro Mosaic Glass Flower Filigree Brooch

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Vintage Micro Mosaic Glass Flower Filigree Brooch
Offered in this lot is a lovely Micro Mosaic Filigree broach. This brooch has a clasp and style that would date it from 1850-1920. If any type of jewelry could call itself a true work of art it would be the micro mosaic. Tiny glass tiles (called tesserae) are crafted together and placed carefully into cement to produce incredible ‘micro mosaic’ pictures, which are then set into jewelry. Micro mosaic work date back over 2000 years, and usually originates from Europe. The micro mosaic on this brooch is of a bunch of four flowers set with leaves on a blue background with orange, green and white scalloping around the edge set off with twisted wire. The metal filigree and backing of this brooch appears to be brass. The condition of this brooch is quite good for it's age with no noticeable chips missing. The brooch measures 1 3/4" wide X 1 1/4 ' tall.