Victorian Pietra Dura Panel austro-hungarian with a juicy ruby cabochon

with a juicy ruby cabochon brain

modelled in platinum and resting beautifully against the finger

Dating from the mid 1920s riding the wave of Egyptomania that washed over Europe and America after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922

The curb links are graduated

Victorian Pietra Dura Panel austro-hungarian with a juicy ruby cabochonDATE: Victorian, c. 1850 A fantastic antique pietra dura panel Pietra Dura precisely cut hardstones with a carefully chosen colour palette which are arranged to form a pattern or image, typically set within a panel of marble or onyx, and then polished and buffed to a high shine. The stone inlay work is so finely crafted, that it often looks like a painting. This quality usually makes pietra dura more valuable than other mosaic work. The main event of