Carlo Giuliano Brooches

A stunning, fine and impressive antique 1890s 6.73 carat diamond and natural pearl, 18 karat yellow gold and platinum set brooch; part of our diverse antique jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This stunning, fine and impressive antique pearl and diamond brooch...

A late 19th century French enamel and diamond brooch, the centre depicting an enamelled Egyptian Queen with rose-cut diamond-set headdress decorations, within a rose diamond-set crescent, all mounted in yellow gold with a pierced gallery, bearing French gold marks for 18ct gold, Paris 1847-1919, makers mark P.B. , circa 1880, measuring approximately 2.8cm in diameter, gross weight 5.4grams. This antique brooch is in good condition, minimal enamel defiant. An exquisite late-nineteenth century Egyptian revival enamel and diamond brooch from the collection of Bentley & Skinner, the London jewellers by appointment to both Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. After Napoleon’s Egyptian...

19th Century Cut Steel Extra Large Butterfly Brooch Period: Victorian Year: c.1850s Material: Steel and Silver Weight: 30.23g Dimensions: 49.40...

Pendent-Brooch composed of an oval decorated with interlacing punctuated with white pearls. 18K yellow gold frame. French work. Dimensions: 3.30 x 3.00 cm. Gross weight: 7.53 g.

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Pendant-Brooch in silver, ram's head hallmark. Refined, this antique brooch features an arabesque design adorned with small sapphires and fine half-pearls...

Large silver plated Egyptian Revival style brooch with a beautiful detailed pharaoh design. Measuring length 9.35 cm / 3.68 inches by width 4.5 cm / 1.77 inches. This lovely brooch h...

This is a Victorian style 14K yellow gold and pearls brooch/pendant. It is a round brooch decorated with smaller to larger circles made of cannetilles and pearls. The top of the broo...

Antique diamond wing brooch, attributed to Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, circa 1900. A gold and silver brooch in the form of a pair of outstretched wings, the wings with one hundred and sixteen pavé set round old cut diamonds with an approximate total weight of 5.80 carats, and additionally set with two old cut drop shaped diamonds set to top and bottom of the centrepiece with an approximate total weight of 2.05 carats. Originally part of a hair ornament. In a fitted Wartski box, authentication courtesy of Wartski. This brooch appears in 'Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewellery', by Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey Munn, p. 12. Please note shipping to the United States of America requires the purchaser to fill out a CBP 5106 customs form before the item is shipped. This form is a legal requirement for any item over $2,000 which is being imported into the United States. One of the details the form requests is the purchaser’s social security number or importer’s number. One of the most collectable makers of antique jewellery is the London house of Giuliano, founded by the Neapolitan-born Carlo Giuliano, and succeeded by his sons Carlo and Arthur Alphonse. Though unmarked, this piece is likely to have once been a part of a tiara or hair ornament made by Giuliano due to its similarity to other signed pieces by the firm. There are five known pieces, in addition to the present jewel, by Giuliano which are comprised of a pair of diamond set wings with a larger stone or stones placed at centre. All five—a convertible hair ornament/brooch, a tiara, and three brooches—appeared in Wartski’s 1989 exhibition Artists’ Jewellery: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts, and additionally two of these five are featured in the book of the same title by Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey Munn. The present piece is most similar to the diamond hair ornament...

A rare Art Deco Egyptian Revival masterpiece. The stunning brooch is centered by the head of a Pharoah with a magnificent hand carved face in Persian Turquoise. The Turquoise face reflects the work of a master artisan. The Pharoah is flanked on either side by a beautifully modeled pair of reclining Sphinx with blue enamel headdresses. Below the Sphinx are Lotus Flower images...

Finely detailed enamel Butterfly Brooch by London based designer, Leo de Vroomen. Diamonds highlight the body and eyes of the Butterfly. It mea...

An early 20th century Egyptian Revival gold brooch, depicting a vulture centred with a faïence scarab, clutching lotus pods and surmounted with a cabochon ruby, polychrome enamel decoration overall and engraved to reverse, 3.5cm wide. One arrow missing. Revival is always happening in the jewelry world. The Indiana Jones inside all of us is always enticed by the buried loot of the ancients. It’s one of the reasons Egyptian Revival jewelry is so alluring. Luckily for jewelry connoisseurs the span of history that have laid way to an aesthetic resurgence and intense interest in all things Egyptian during the last two hundred years. Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign in 1798 ignited the West’s fascination with motifs we have all come to associate with Egyptian Revival—sphinxes, pyramids, palmettes, papyrus leaves. This curiosity was further stimulated by the excitement surrounding the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, after 10 years of construction, arousing a real revival of the Egyptian style, with jewelers specifically incorporating artifacts that were thousands of years old, faience in the shapes of falcons and scarabs, set into jewels framed by vermilion enamel and lapis lazuli. Some of the highlights in the 19th century timeline of Egyptomania include the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, displays at World’s Fairs and the moment when Cleopatra’s Needle...