Posted 10 years ago
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Hi all, I believe this is a mosaic button? Correct me if wrong please. It is beautiful in person. Thanks for looking!
One of my fav buttons--pietra dura | ||
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One of my fav buttons--pietra dura | ||
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Posted 10 years ago
Jewels
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Hi all, I believe this is a mosaic button? Correct me if wrong please. It is beautiful in person. Thanks for looking!
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This kind of mosaic is called pietra dura!
It is made from stones, Italian origin! micromosaic is made of tiny tiny glas tesserae
Hi kyra! Again you are spot on! I just looked it up and I am obsessed with pietra dura! Thanks so much! I'm learning so much!
Julie, so much passionate in jewellery, always learning too :-))
Indeed Pietra Dura (translated hard stone)pietra dura, in mosaic, any of several kinds of hard stone used in mosaic work, an art that flourished in Florence particularly in the late 16th and 17th centuries and involved the fashioning of highly illusionistic pictures out of cut-to-shape pieces of colored stone. The resulting decorative mosaics were used primarily for tabletops and small wall panels but also, as in your case, for jewelry. Beautiful button!
Thank you very much agram! I really love buttons and have been collecting them over the years and this one has always been a favorite. Thanks for the great information :)
Beautiful!
Thank you elisabethan! Have you seen the pietra dura brooches? I want one!