A 9ct yellow gold Italian Pietra-Dura flower brooch oval shape with Etruscan revival mount. The fine Italian Pietra-Dura is floral green, robins egg blue inlay colors, white and soft pink flowers as accents.
The technique of Pietra dura is a Florentine invention of the end of the 16th century, at the time of the Medici. The basic principal of pietra dura is to arrange cut stones into a pattern usually floral in such a way that the joins between them are invisible.
Circa 1880
Width: 52mm
Height: 42mm
Total weight: 16.2grams