Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Card or Cake Tray: Osborne House Eglomise Painting cordial a highly acclaimed and utilized

a highly acclaimed and utilized mimic for tortoise shell and ivory and mother of pearl as they became difficult to supply in later 1800s

this one is lush with fringe all around (some missing here or there)

The set has been hand enameled with gold and adorned with raised gold enameling

you see the punch mark "585" that guarantees they are solid 14k gold

earliest Puiforcat

Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Card or Cake Tray: Osborne House Eglomise Painting cordial a highly acclaimed and utilizedHere's a fabulous antique souvenir of Osborne House (info added on this site): this is one that would have been a Victorian era souvenir of the Grand Tour visitor's trip to Osborne House, a Royal retreat in England. One might almost imagine the tiny painted figures there on horseback to be some of those Royals. The back painted glass or 'eglomise' miniature painting has a pearl underlayment which makes the building shimmer in light. The architectural