Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Decorative Arts The soldier in full uniform

The soldier in full uniform with his cavalry trooper's sword hanging from his sadle & the horse hair from his Cuirassier helmet is fluttering in in the wind

The chest is in very good condition it is solid & sturdy

particularly their representations of mythological themes

it is made from heavy pine and is very robust

London and two more such inkwells housed in the David Collection

Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Decorative Arts The soldier in full uniformA 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