Reverse carved & painted Vintage intaglio glass BAY HORSE HEAD Pendant

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LAST ONE !!! VINTAGE INTAGLIO PENDANT THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! This is a finely rendered reverse carved and reverse painted vintage glass intaglio of a gorgeous bay HORSE HEAD Head. It features the head of the horse with a beautiful soft white background. The details in this piece are amazing!!! You can see the eyes, nose and even his bridle as this piece is so clearly carved and painted. This is a great vintage intaglio piece. This is a very rare piece featuring a horse head of this size, and the details on it cannot be captured by the photograph. This is a 25mm by 18mm glass intaglio piece carved and hand painted in West Germany in the 1940's and is set in a newer ornate and vintage looking, decorative gold colored brass setting. This is a rare and great old piece. It is a very old vintage glass piece, and makes a very unique piece of jewelry. These cabachons were sometimes called intaglios, rosettes, reverse crystals or "Cabs". They date back to the 1940's and 1950's and are considered to be extremely rare and highly collectible. These "cabs" or cabachons contain intaglio images or scenes. Each piece was hand painted into a reverse carved image. These amazing pieces of art were first manufactured during the Victorian era. Because they are so tiny and intricate it is difficult to manufacture them today. Current high manufacturing read more