Piel Frères c.1900 Gilt Metal, Enamel and Glass Scarab Design Antique Buckle

This pretty and shimmering buckle by the renowned Piel Frères company dates from c.1920. Condition Report: Very Good - A little darkening to a couple of the paste stones. This is c...

This outstanding brooch was made in France and features a wonderfully elegant original Art Nouveau design. Condition Report: Excellent The Details... This brooch is constructed fro...

This lovely brooch, reflects the craftsmanship and eye for detail so characteristic of Czechoslovakian jewellery design. It dates from the 1930s...

This wonderful and rare Duette clip brooch was designed by Adolph Katz for Coro in c.1942. Condition Report: Very Good - A tiny element of darkening to ...

Wonderfully detailed, Mary McFadden's gilded gold hardware optional "Scarab" clip on brooch, can also be used as a loop to hold in place your lovely silk scarf when wor...

The "Winged Globe" of Egypt is a powerful ancient symbol of divine protection and authority, traditionally found above temple entrances and worn by Egyptian royalty to invoke the gua...

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...

An antique Egyptian revival scarab brooch, the cabochon-cut sapphire in a rub-over setting with rose cut diamond details, the outstretch...