Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Saxophone Brooch

This is an unusually complex brooch design of curling and coiling forms, in a symmetrical pattern to resemble an abstract butterfly. The sleek sterling silver and the rich sculptural...

The iconic organic styling of Robert Lee Morris is so evident in this dramatic large brooch created in the late 1980's. Due to his long collaboration with designer Donna Karan, Rober...

What a fun and dramatic piece this one is! Very large and important, a true statement of glamour and high fashion, this brooch is composed of two spirals that are joined by a sweepin...

This large and dramatic silver brooch is commanding in its appearance. What a statement it makes on a winded coat or jacket. the sensuous and iconic style of...

This bold and very sculptural brooch by robert Lee Morris is sterling silver, and is an actual dome that is nearly 3/4" high. there is a rimmed hole in the top center which makes this form completely mysterious and engaging. For the lover of wearing clusters or groupings of brooches on their coat. A very unusual piece, this three dimensional silver form is strikingly original and at the same time very clean and pure. Created in the late 1980's during a very active period of collaboration between Robert and Donna Karan who was asking for silver brooches to wear down the runway with her fall jackets. Called the Peephole due to its resemblance to a door peephole...

Created for a Donna Karan fall collection 1987, this large and impressive brooch is iconic for Robert Lee Morris and for Donna Karan, due to the unmistakable organic flow of the desi...

A Vintage Robert Saxophone Brooch with matching mini sax earrings. Mid century figurals, playful and fun and crafted to the highest quality by 'Origin...

A rare, large scale handmade, one of a kind, sterling silver and malachite cat brooch created by Robert and Audrey Engstrom. Brooch measures 4" in hei...

Dove Brooch Beautifully crafted dove Brooch with exceptional fine details, beautifully designed can be worn with a light weight necklace an aide memoire of Luke 3:22: ‘’And the Hol...

Rare Art Deco Carved Bakelite Saxophone Brooch. Hand carved in green end of day marbleized bakelite with an unusual musical motif. From the 1930's Ja...

This elegant, striking brooch in very contemporary oxidised sterling silver is designed and made by UK jeweler Sarah Pulvertaft. With its assymetric circle the entire brooch is compr...

A William Spratling Sterling silver Brooch .1933-1939 and 1940-1946, First Design Period; Taxco, Mexico stamped for William Spratling; Others variously stamped: Taxco / 980 / Made in Mexico / Silver / Mexico Provenance: The Collection of Cindy Tietze-Hodosh and Stuart Hodosh William Spratling, (born Sept. 22, 1900, Sonyea, N.Y., U.S.A”died Aug. 8, 1967, near Taxco, Mex.), American designer and architect, who spent more than 30 years in Mexico developing and promoting the silvercraft that made the city of Taxco famous.A graduate of the New York Fine Arts Institute and Auburn University, in Alabama (where he studied architecture), Spratling taught art and architecture at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., for eight years before going to Mexico in 1927. For two years he taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City (1927â€â€œ29) and then settled in Taxco, an old silver town (founded in 1528) that had long been in decay. He befriended silver artisans from all over Mexico and began the design of silver jewelry, artwork, tableware, and tea sets, opening his first taller, or workshop, on the Calle Las Delicias in 1933. After World War II his workshop went bankrupt, but he continued his work from a nearby ranch. His example inspired the founding of hundreds of competing workshops.Over the years Spratling also collected archaeological pieces...