Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Decorative Arts The bell having a kokoshnik

The bell having a kokoshnik marks for Moscow and the silversmith's mark in Cyrillic

32 cm X 32 cm X 21

13" tall X 5" diameter

The exterior decorated with a pair of corresponding dragons chasing a flaming pearl

between the bands are twin panels on inlaid silver scrolling foliage

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Decorative Arts The bell having a kokoshnikA very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845 1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873. Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were