Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Decorative Arts plus a model number written

plus a model number written by hand in red

it is made from heavy pine and is very robust

Both the interior of the lid and the interior of the base are hallmarked for Gervase Wheeler

London and two more such inkwells housed in the David Collection

Paris (1861-1927)

Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Decorative Arts plus a model number writtenA 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