Featured Grand Tour Specimen Collage Mosaic Pattern Name

Hey everyone,

Need some help, I've been racking my brain and wringing the Internet for the name of the is pattern and this style of ware.

Does anybody remember the ware name, this black and specimen Collage style pattern.

Thanks for any help

 

Pietra Dura is its name for anybody else on the hunt I managed to find it

 

@Nathan Lindop


Were you looking for something specific.There were thousands of this type mosaic containers,etc. made in Italy and Mexico,hobbyist in the 1970/80's.

 

What does the whole piece look like?
Patd

 

Hi,
I would have bought just for the malachite bits. Can you tell I LOVE malachite?
I brought a 30 LB malachite boulder back from India back in the early 1970s. Piece was cut up to make a lot of jewelry for friends. Ended up weighing 6 lbs. had in my garden until one Halloween when it eloped with somebody.
greg

 

Malachite is really something else, it's like it's alive! It was a small inkwell. My dad bought it for £22, pretty well done.

Pietra Dura items are really collectible now. The inkwell is likely Victorian so on for a winner

 

Hi,
In the 1970s Sheryl Wagner had a showroom in NYC with a solid malachite bathroom sink, tub and toilet. I forget the price but I lusted after that bathroom.
I was sorry to see it go but the next one was in pink quartz. Nice for the ladies.
greg

 

The first instance I can find of that set is in a multi million dollar mansion in America somewhere