Glass mosaic inlay
Translucent cobalt blue ground; decoration in opaque white, yellow, red, and greyish green.
Plaque comprising two squarish sections attached along one straight side and the outward sides rounded.
On each section a matching symmetrical frond and palmette motif arranged around a central four-petaled cross-shaped rosette, with a tall, leafy frond at each corner with spiral volutes below forming a frame to the central rosette, and a short palmette on each side.
Cracked and repaired with several chips around edges; upper and underside and all edges ground and polished; pitted surface bubbles and dulling.
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