In later years these miniature scenes came to be more highly regarded than the figures they accompany.
You stare at one and see miniature scenes - a football game, a council meeting and a pop concert.
The screen lit with a hundred crowded little images, a mosaic of miniature scenes.
Amanda looked up from the beetle shell upon which she was painting a miniature scene in watercolors.
With the suddenness of creation a miniature scene sprang into being in the center of the table.
One woman's jacket features miniature scenes, no more than an inch and a half in any direction.
Turning on the speculum he was able to see that the miniature scene showed the inside of the Hall of the Gate itself.
This success was beyond his expectations; he had been ready for failure, or at best a miniature scene.
Now his shells are a stage for miniature scenes that fetch $200 and up.
A narrow band melds Christianity with heraldry in miniature scenes that suggest medieval tapestries.