Millefiori
This wonderful glass mosaic brooch with its shades of red, green, yellow and blue is Victorian, made in Italy in the 1870s. The pieces have been painstakingly put together to create the beautiful image of flowers you see. It would have been a tourist piece, purchased as a souvenir by a visitor to Venice perhaps, and the glass making island of Murano.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 7th of March is "jewellery on a paper background". As soon as I saw the theme, I knew what I wanted to use as my submission. In one of my books – “Glass: Pleasures and treasures” by George Savage, published by Weidenfield and Nicholson in 1965 – there is a beautiful colour plate of a tazza of millefiori glass made in the First Century, AD. I felt that with its shades matching the brooch so well, it would make the perfect backdrop for this stunning piece of Italian jewellery! I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Millefiori
This wonderful glass mosaic brooch with its shades of red, green, yellow and blue is Victorian, made in Italy in the 1870s. The pieces have been painstakingly put together to create the beautiful image of flowers you see. It would have been a tourist piece, purchased as a souvenir by a visitor to Venice perhaps, and the glass making island of Murano.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 7th of March is "jewellery on a paper background". As soon as I saw the theme, I knew what I wanted to use as my submission. In one of my books – “Glass: Pleasures and treasures” by George Savage, published by Weidenfield and Nicholson in 1965 – there is a beautiful colour plate of a tazza of millefiori glass made in the First Century, AD. I felt that with its shades matching the brooch so well, it would make the perfect backdrop for this stunning piece of Italian jewellery! I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!