Plisson et Hartz Jewelry

This lovely brooch features diamonds and pearl arranged in a delicate design. The natural pearl has great lustre. Two 0.50 carat old cut diamonds sit on the ends of the brooch, and a...

Let’s step into the enchanting world of the Art Nouveau era with this exceptionally rare and captivating French-made double chimera pendant brooch. Crafted with unparalleled skill, t...

Designer: Cartier Metal: Yellow Gold, Platinum (horse saddle) Metal Purity: 18k, 950 (saddle) Style: Brooch / Pin Era: 1930's Stones: Sapphire, Diamonds Hallmark: Cartier ...

1920's Exquisite Platinum Diamond and Sapphire Bow Brooch Fifty Four Old European Diamonds weighing 2.00 carats (approximately) Twenty...

Item Details: This antique brooch has an Art Deco design and is studded with diamonds at two carats total. The diamonds are a mix of marquise and old European cut...

Horse Racer Diamonds Platinum Enamel Unisex Brooch. Created around 1975. Stylish platinum brooch set with old cut diamonds with a total weight of about 1.50 Carats, the jockey on the horse coated...

Seventy-one sparkling white diamonds and faceted black onyx make an elegant statement in this Art Deco-period "bow" brooch by Greenleaf & Crosby. Th...

An exceptional 0.56 carat diamond and 18 karat yellow gold, platinum set griffin brooch; part of our diverse antique jewelry and estate jewelry collections. This exceptional, fine a...

Brooch in 18 karat yellow gold, eagle head hallmark. Splendid antique brooch, it represents a chimera in openwork decoration surrounded by a vegetal pattern. Its eye is a small ruby ...

Item Details: Metal Type: Platinum with Gold Pin [Hallmarked, and Tested] Weight: 5.8 grams Diamond Details: .75ct total weight, Natural Diamonds, Old European Brilliant Cut, F-G Col...

18ct gold & silver set Art Nouveau Diamond Opal Pendant/Brooch dated circa 1900 Five round opals with an articulated pear shaped opal drop, very well matched with lively play of colours and iridescence in reds, greens, blues and gold. Set in 18 carat yellow gold claw collets Two main transitional cut (old mine) diamonds 0.70ct. Mix of old mine and rose cut diamonds in an 18 carat yellow gold with “silver Set” channel setting , approx 1 ct total. G/H/I, VS2-SI2. Total diamond weight: approx 1.7carats Setting diamonds in gold with a thin layer of silver, “silver set”, was a technique used in the Georgian/Victorian/Art Nouveau period as white coloured gold and platinum were not yet available. A very thin layer of silver was applied to the gold, on which the diamonds were set, to show them off to their best advantage (as the yellow would reflect and distort the white colour of the diamonds). The Art Nouveau period was a short lived but worldwide movement which reached its peak at the end of the 19th Century and the first decade of the 20th Century. It had its roots in the Pre Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain in the 1860’s. Artists, such as William Morris, took their inspiration from the flora and fauna of nature and rejected the mass industrialisation and mechanisation of the Victorian age. Art Nouveau continued with this theme and has a distinctive appearance with soft, curved shapes and lines and often depicted natural designs such as flowers, birds and the female form. Before the Art Nouveau period, the emphasis had been to design pieces with an emphasis on gem stones, diamonds, rubies emeralds etc. However, during the Art Nouveau period, jewellers adopted the idea of using other semi–precious stones “from nature” such as agate, garnet opal, moonstone, aquamarine and experimented with a wide variety of new techniques e.g. enamelling. The “New Art” style became a worldwide movement encompassing all disciplines of the arts, and world class artists as far afield as Gaudi with his “modernisme” architecture in Spain, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York with objects, Galle Glass in France and the Liberty & Co Archibald Knox designs in Britain, Jugendstil in Northern Europe and Faberge in Russia. The movement flared brightly but briefly and by 1910 it was already going out of style to be replaced by Art Deco. In fitted period box. Detachable 18ct brooch...

Antique brooch or pendant . Mr. cute little burro is vertically .89 inches (to the top of his bale), or 22.61 mm., and horizontally .994 inches or 25.25 mm. Pave with rose cut diamo...