Diamond Hand-Painted Trinket Box with Calling Card, Italian Mid Century Library Decor The spine is gilt-lettered

Diamond Hand-Painted Trinket Box with Calling Card, Italian Mid Century Library Decor The spine is gilt-letteredA small Florentine gilt box worked in the tradition revived by postwar Florentine artisans carrying Renaissance and Baroque decorative techniques into the mid twentieth century. Contains a Victorian chromolithograph calling card inside. These cards date to the 1880s or 1890s, when chromolithography made richly layered color printing suddenly affordable and the exchange of sentimental cards briefly became a social ritual for visitors and friends. The

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