Description
Pietra Dura lidded box - Renaissance Style - different types of stone - Early 20th century
Italy
Jewel box in Pietra dura.
Pietra dura, also called pietre dure (Italian for “hard stone” or “hard stones”) is a technique with which a stone is inlaid with stone fragments of other types of stones and with different colours (WIkipedia).
This operation produces very durable and colourfast decorations.
Lot details
- Object
- Pietra Dura lidded box
- Material
- different types of stone
- Style
- Renaissance Style
- Estimated Period
- Early 20th century
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Condition
- Good condition - used with small signs of aging & blemishes
- Dimensions
- 2.5×5×7.5 cm
- Weight
- 130 g