Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Sculpture The painting of large size

The painting of large size at 34" tall x 39" wide

New Bond St London"

The Top and base are stamped with the "E & Co" for Elkington and the panther's head for London with the date letter "R" for 1912

below are bands of rope twist decoration with three rosette appliques and two pineapple appliques

After his studies

Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Sculpture The painting of large sizeA good antique Italian Grand Tour miniature hand painted portrait on a porcelain plaque of Beatrice Cenci after the original by Guido Reni (1575 1642), the painting in a gilt brass micro mosaic frame, Florence, circa 1890. This very attractive Grand Tour miniature portrait of Beatrice Cenci was for several hundred years believed to be by Guido Reni, and scholars now believe that it is by Ginerva Cantofoli (1608 1672), the painting is signed illegibly