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VENDUTO
Miniature - France - Napoleon III Period - Late 1800s - Ivory, brass and copper.
Small frame in ivory with blocks, which embeds a miniature on painted copper depicting the beloved.
Consider that although photography had already been invented, in this period it still did not enjoy today's diffusion and the future groom could only have a painted image of his girlfriend available.
Paris, Napoleon III Period, circa late 1800s, miniature profiled in wrought brass.
To hang, support in the photo not included.
On the back lined with an ancient Latin prayer on paper.
Wear and patina, but no shortcomings.
VENDUTO
English 
Italian