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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 690602, member: 2844&quot;]It is a charming Italian pietra dura mosaic, probably made in Naples. Pietra dura means hard stone, the entire inlay is stone.</p><p>It could have been part of a furniture panel. How big is it?</p><p><br /></p><p>The girls are dancing the Tarantella, a famous southern Italian dance.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/0f5d6068-b5cf-4107-abe3-5058d4e12245-jpeg.186159/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>More on pietra dura, with a mention of the Naples manufacture:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietra_dura" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietra_dura" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietra_dura</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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