Antique Silver & Hand Painted Portrait Brooch art deco Using these two ingenious materials

Using these two ingenious materials

with deep blue and green enameled scales

This style of single watch chain has a bar on one end

Dimensions: Necklace is 16

Seed pearls represented tears of sorrow

Antique Silver & Hand Painted Portrait Brooch art deco Using these two ingenious materialsHand painted miniature portraits were the predecessors of photographs. When there was no other way to record a likeness of someone, the miniatures were treasured and passed down in families. Some portrait miniatures were painted of a specific person, and others were of classic style beauties rather than a particular real person. Often, these pieces were made into jewelry and worn as decoration, such as our brooch. Set in a floral frame of silver, this