Millefiori mount

Spectacularly ornate, and intricately detailed, this mount is a favourite piece in the museum. The enamel pattern has been made with millefiori glass. Translated this means ‘thousand-flower’. It is created by fusing rods of coloured glass together, then stretching them to make them as small as you wish, then chopping slices off this rod, which are then set into pieces such as this mount. This mount is possibly from harness.