WILLIAM KERR & CO. 1900 Art Nouveau Brooch In Repousse .925 Sterling Silver

Modernist enamel brooch designed by Mauricette Pinoteau. A stunning very romantic pin brooch created in Limoges France by the enamelist artist Mauricette Pinoteau. Crafted as an uni...

French art nouveau orchid pendant-brooch. Beautiful piece of jewelry from the art nouveau period, created in France back in the turn of the 19th centur...

A William Spratling Sterling silver Brooch .1933-1939 and 1940-1946, First Design Period; Taxco, Mexico Each 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 (1927–29) 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 (housed in the Museo Guillermo Spratling [William Spratling Museum] in Taxco) and founded a silvercraft school. He wrote several books, including Old Plantation...

A fine antique Georg Jensen brooch or pin. In sterling silver. Model no. 65 with a floral motif. Designed by Georg Jensen. Together with its original box from Walter Muhke-Hofjuw...