A fine Italian Vanitas pietra dura panel, in the 17th century style, circa 1900, the framed panel depicting a boy seated on a table blowing soap bubbles, a traditional symbol of the brevity of life, finely inlaid with marble and other semi-precious hard stones, on a black slate ground, possibly signed but illegible to the slate border lower right, housed in a period gilt frame, height 27 cm, width 14 cm