Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Redo and machine-rolled

and machine-rolled

having a shaped & gilded finial to the lid and finely hand-painted with brightly colored woodland birds and butterflies

Tom Fawkes taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the 1960s

The coaster having a flared & ribbed rim with baronial a engraved crest to the front of a snake within a laurel wreath

Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Redo and machine-rolledA 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