Antique Victorian Painted Porcelain Portrait Whitby Jet Pendant Bow Brooch
Located in London, GB
Wonderful antique Victorian Whitby jet pendant with a metal bow brooch and dog clip, and featuring a lovely painted porcelain portrait.
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Hand Painted Portrait Diamond and Seed Pearl Victorian Pendant Brooch
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Finely detailed Hand Painted Portrait Brooch Pendant. Depicting a Beautiful Woman from the Victorian era.
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18 Karat Yellow Gold Hand-Painted Victorian Miniature Portrait Brooch Pin
Located in Washington Depot, CT
Antique 18K Yellow Gold Hand Painted Victorian Miniature Portrait Brooch Pin.
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9th-Century Hand-Painted Miniature Portrait Brooch in Filigree Silver, 1850
Located in Honolulu, HI
At its heart lies a meticulously hand-painted miniature portrait, a technique that requires extraordinary precision and patience, executed with an exceptionally fine brush that bring...
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Victorian Painted Enamel 14 Karat Yellow Gold Antique Portrait Stickpin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Featuring a cushion-shaped form painted with enamel portrait of a young boy Depicted wearing colorful clothes with raised hand pointing up Opaque black, white, red, brown, pink, and...
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French Painted Woman Portrait Round Pin Pendant in Silver Setting, Mid 1900s
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French Painted Woman Portrait Round Pin Pendant in Silver Setting, Mid 1900s
Located in Milford, DE
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Located in Montclair, NJ
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Natural Pearls and Rose Cut Diamonds on a Silver Over Gold Painted Portrait Pin
Located in Lexington, KY
Silver over gold painted portrait pin This charming Victorian pin features a silver over gold painted portrait of a beautiful woman. One can not help but to wonder what she is think...
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18K Yellow Gold Italian Hand Painted Portrait Pendant / Brooch with Diamonds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
This lovely 18K yellow gold and hand painted portrait piece is replete with extraordinary details. The crystal covered portrait features an elegant lady dressed in traditional garb, ...
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Antique 19th Century Painted Enamel Portrait Pendant Brooch
Located in Napoli, IT
Sensing Past Art This antique 19th Century painted Enamel Miniature depicts a charming young lady portrait Beautifully represented with graceful look in elegant outfit of the time, ...
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20th Century Florenza Style Silver Plate Hand Painted Portrait Brooch
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20th Century Florenza Style Silver Plate Hand Painted Portrait Brooch
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
20th Century Florenza Style Silver Plate Hand Painted Portrait Brooch. This Victorian style brooch features a silver plate ornate frame with a hand painted ceramic female portrait.
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Located in Houston, TX
Antique 14k gold portrait brooch hand painted Swiss enamel porcelain with natural seed pearls. It's featuring the miniature portrait of a lady from the court of king XVI of France. I...
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Antique 9ct Gold Large Portrait Brooch Pin C1870s Heavy 16.1g 375 Purity Painted
Located in Camelford, GB
On offer is this gorgeous 9CT HEAVY GOLD HAND PAINTED PORTRAIT BROOCH DETAILS Material: 9ct (375/000) Solid Yellow Gold - thick and lovely design.
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Victorian Hand Painted Portrait with Rose Cut Diamonds 14 Karat Pendant / Brooch
Located in Daytona Beach, FL
Beautifully detailed rare Victorian hand painted portrait pendant/brooch. The antique rose cut diamonds accent the very detailed life like portrait of a woman.
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Antique Victorian Hand Painted Porcelain Cameo Lady Brooch Pin Portrait
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Antique Victorian Hand Painted Porcelain Cameo Lady Brooch Pin Portrait
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique hand painted cameo portrait of a young woman with blonde hair in sausage curls, set in a gold tone frame of twisted rope and floral accents.
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14-Karat Yellow Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Cameo Portrait Brooch Pendant
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14-Karat Yellow Gold Hand Painted Porcelain Cameo Portrait Brooch Pendant
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique hand painted cameo portrait on porcelain of a woman long brown hair and bare shoulders covering her chest with a white cloth, set in a 14-karat gold rope frame; can be used a...
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Thomas Edwin MostynThomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930) - Oil Portrait, Victorian Lady with Ruby Brooch, Unknown
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Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930) - Oil Portrait, Victorian Lady with Ruby Brooch
By Thomas Edwin Mostyn
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressive late Victorian portrait of a stern looking lady in mourning. The sitter wears an all black gown, buttoned down the front with a high lace collar. Pinned to the front of...
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Rare Vintage Victorian Hand Painted Portrait Brooch
Located in New York, NY
This rare, beautiful Victorian hand painted brooch features a lady with a green dress and what appears to be a vale on her head. It also has a double twist gold tone mounting. It me...
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Located in Atlanta, GA
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Antique Hand Painted Portrait of a Woman and Child
Located in Atlanta, GA
This antique gold hand painted portrait depicts a lady with a basket of fruit and a girl holding a piece of fruit in the Swiss countryside.
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Antique Late 19th Century French Victorian Brooches
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Victorian Painted Portrait Brooch For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate victorian painted portrait brooch for your needs in our varied inventory. Each design created in this style — which was crafted with great care and often made from Gold, 18k Gold and 14k Gold — can elevate any look. You’re likely to find the perfect victorian painted portrait brooch among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 18th Century as well as those produced as recently as the 20th Century. A victorian painted portrait brooch of any era or style can lend versatility to your look, but a version featuring Diamond, from our inventory of 3, is particularly popular. Today, if you’re looking for a rose cut version of this piece and are unable to find the perfect match, our selection also includes round cut alternatives. When shopping for a victorian painted portrait brooch, you’ll find that there are less available pieces for unisex or men today than there are for women.
How Much is a Victorian Painted Portrait Brooch?
On average, a victorian painted portrait brooch at 1stDibs sells for $1,373, while they’re typically $120 on the low end and $4,357 for the highest priced versions of this item.
A Close Look at Victorian Jewelry
The reign of Queen Victoria encapsulates a quickly evolving period of history — and jewelry styles were no exception. No single period has seen such a diverse group of jewelry attributed to it than the Victorian era. Today, there is a vast collection of authentic antique Victorian jewelry and watches on 1stDibs.
Victorian jewelry is named after Queen Victoria, whose reign lasted from 1837 to 1901, making her the second longest-ruling monarch. (She was surpassed by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015.) During this time, different styles of fashion and jewelry came and went. Thanks to our fascination with royalty and swoon-worthy melodramas like Netflix’s The Crown — which is rife with evocative fashion, jewelry and interiors — and the 2017 feature film Victoria & Abdul, we are all familiar with her story. After the death of Victoria’s father and three childless uncles, she ascended to the throne at age 18. In 1840, Queen Victoria married the love of her life, her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Queen Victoria loved serpentine jewels, and she had even more power to shape trends than Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle do today. The British monarch’s best-known piece in this mold is the gold coiled-snake engagement ring she received from Prince Albert — the sinuous reptile was considered a symbol of everlasting love.
The Queen's 63-year reign has been divided by historians into the Romantic period, the early happy years, circa 1837–60; the Grand period, marked by the deaths of the Queen’s mother and husband, circa 1860–80; and the late Victorian or Aesthetic period, which lasted from about 1880 until 1901 and ushered in the Belle Époque. Queen Victoria wore her heart on her sleeve, and her fashion and jewelry reflected her emotions.
Romantic period jewelry, which featured common decorative motifs and was embellished with seed pearls, coral and turquoise, was a celebration of the young monarch’s love. Everything changed with the death of Prince Albert, and the Grand period is most often associated with mourning jewelry. Jewelry was smaller, lighter and more dainty during the late Victorian period. During this era, diamonds came into fashion, and semiprecious gems such as amethysts and opals became prevalent, too. Using gemstones for their natural beauty and not their worth was something that jewelers of the era felt passionate about, and this ideology would really become relevant in Art Nouveau jewelry.
Find a collection of authentic antique Victorian jewelry — from rings, necklaces and brooches to a range of other accessories — on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Brooches for You
Vintage brooches, which refer to decorative jewelry traditionally pinned to garments and used to fasten pieces of clothing together where needed, have seen increasing popularity in recent years.
While jewelry trends come and go, brooches are indeed back on the radar thanks to fashion houses like Gucci, Versace, Dior and Saint Laurent, all of which feature fun pinnable designs in their current collections. Whether a dazzlingly naturalistic Art Nouveau dragonfly, a whimsical David Webb animal, a gem-studded bloom or a streamlined abstract design, these jewels add color and sparkle to your look and a spring to your step.
Given their long history, brooches have expectedly taken on a variety of different shapes and forms over time, with jewelers turning to assorted methods of ornamentation for these accessories, including enameling and the integration of pearls and gemstones. Cameo brooches that originated during the Victorian age are characterized by a shell carved in raised relief that feature portraits of a woman’s profile, while 19th-century micromosaic brooches, comprising innumerable individually placed glass fragments, sometimes feature miniature depictions of a pastoral scene in daily Roman life.
At one time, brooches were symbols of wealth, made primarily from the finest metals and showcasing exquisite precious gemstones. Today, these jewels are inclusive and universal, and you don’t have to travel very far to find an admirer of brooches. They can be richly geometric in form, such as the ornate diamond pins dating from the Art Deco era, or designer-specific, such as the celebrated naturalistic works created by Tiffany & Co., the milk glass and gold confections crafted by Trifari or handmade vintage Chanel brooches of silk or laminated sheer fabric. Chanel, of course, has never abandoned this style, producing gorgeously baroque CC examples since the 1980s.
Brooches are versatile and adaptable. These decorative accessories can be worn in your hair, on hats, scarves and on the lower point of V-neck clothing. Pin a dazzling brooch to the lapel of your blazer-and-tee combo or add a cluster of smaller pins to your overcoat. And while brooches have their place in “mourning jewelry,” in that a mourning brooch is representative of your connection to a lost loved one, they’re widely seen as romantic and symbolic of love, so much so that a hardcore brooch enthusiast might advocate for brooches to be worn over the heart.
Today, find a wide variety of antique and vintage brooches for sale on 1stDibs, including gold brooches, sapphire brooches and more.
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