1930s Brooches

A beautiful brooch and clip on earring set in sterling silver and Amethyst. It is a geometric design of overlapping silver angles in 2 different textures with a center round amethys...

Incredibly Rare Art Deco Disney Trifari Donald Duck Brooch from the 1930's. Early KTF hallmark with original enamel and ruby paste cab eyes. 2" x 1", 1930's USA.

Rare and special Miriam Haskell pink Gripoix Glass romantic flower petal bouquet brooch. Composed of signature Russian Gold Plate metal stampings and Gripoix Glass petals edged in pi...

Large and Important Marcel Boucher Retro Carp Brooch from the late 1930's. Exceptional design which is parcel gilt with rhodium and large marquise crystals in pastel pink. Unsigned b...

Antique Egyptian Revival sacred Scarab Beetle Brooch made of Gilt / Fold Filled Silver decorated with 15 natural Rubies, 11 natural Sapphires , 28 natural Diamonds, one Citrine and a...

Exceptional Art Deco Mazer Pendant Brooch from the 1930's. High Art Deco design with step faceted faux aquamarines and sapphires set within an intricate pave and baguette dangle sett...

1930s Rare Trifari KTF french bulldog enamel brooch The charming diminutive brooch is designed in the likeness of a endearing french bulldog sheathed wit...

Exceptional Art Deco Jeweled Flower Set from the 1930's. Incredible scale and design in a multitude of colors set in sterling silver. Matching screw back ea...

A 1930s Antique Art Deco Sapphire Brooch. There is something instantly compelling about a piece that feels decisive. This brooch has that un...

Extraordinary Marcel Boucher Early Orchid Brooch from the late 1930's. Dimensional and large brooch with amazing design and signature square cut faux ruby stones used primarily by Boucher. This brooch is designed in pieces and assembled like fine jewelry with extremely tight pave rhinestone work with tapered baguettes. Collector quality, the finest in period faux jewelry, a brooch of this high quality rarely comes to market. High rhodium original finish. 3" x 3.25" in height. Unsigned. 1930's USA. Born in Paris, Marcel Boucher worked as a jewelry designer for Cartier, who brought him to the United States. In the 1930s, he took a job with Mazer Bros...

Rare Ciner Sterling Deco Paste Duette from the 1930's. Large in scale, beautiful quality made in sterling silver with hand set pastes in typical High Style Art Deco Design. Clips sep...

Lovely Art Deco Royal Crown Brooch, Coro. High quality manufacture set in rhodium metal with pave work, hand set with tiny emerald cabs and squares. Uns...

Early rare Art Deco Marcel Boucher Enamel Bird of Paradise brooch with signature pearlized enamel in garnets, purples and orange from the late 1930's. U...

Early Marcel Boucher Ruby Lily from the 1930's. Large striking floral spray with pave accents and ruby paste center. 1930's USA. Signed. 3.25" x 2".

Wonderful Art Deco Diamond and Emerald brooch from the 1930's, set in platinum by Ostertag, France. This lovely design is very reminiscent of Coco Chanel's logo who was his neighbor in the period, where he was located at 16 Place Vendome. Conjoined "C" motifs are are laid with a ladder of diamond baguettes edged with round stones terminating in 2 large diamonds (over 1 carat each) on one end and large fluted Columbian teardrops with tiny pave ball caps on the other. Really exceptional quality and design from 1930's France. Ostertag pieces are exceptionally rare and have the highest quality gems and workmanship c/o the Rubel Freres...

Charming Coro Art Deco Jeweled hand brooch from the 1930's. A gilt metal hand with large paste "diamond" ring and "ruby" cuff. Signed Coro. 2.5" x 1".

Large Pennino Retro Ruby Spray from the late 1930's. High style design, with leaves and sprays of faux cab rubies. 3" x 2.5" wide.

Rare Art Deco Bakelite Pelican Brooch from the 1930's. Designed as a hand carved bakelite cartoon pelican with glass eyes and large beak which is hinged to a secret compartment which...

Miriam Haskell early Turquoise Pate de Verre Wrap Lariat from the late 1930's. These lovely lariats have clip fittings on the ends, which were originally designed to be attached to d...

Large Pair of Art Deco Eisenberg Clips from the 1930's. Huge Swarovski crystals set in white metal designed as striking dress clips. Unsigned but definitely made by Eisenberg with si...

Pair of KTF Trifari Alfred Philippe pave and tricolour fruit salads art deco shield shaped dress clips. The matched pair of rhodium plate base metal, crystal...

Amazing Early Marcel Boucher Flower Corsage Clip Brooch from the early 1930's. Massive scale and Collector Quality. Designed to be worn at neckline or w...

Charming Art Deco Studded Bakelite Sword Brooch from the 1930's. Root beer bakelite set with brass studs and gilt enamel. 4.5" x 1.5". 1930's USA.

During the Art Deco period when Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was at her peak as a Parisian couture designer in the early 1930s and working closely with her favorite jewelry parurier Fulco di Verdura, for one of her clients, she commissioned this unique handcrafted gem-fringed medallion brooch with a yellow-gold circle rope of flexible thick chain that dangles from an unseen ornate open-work curvilinear yellow-gold base. Marked only "FRANCE" on the bar pin with a trombone clasp, like some early 1930s Chanel couture jewelry collected by TheMet museum, its artistry reflects the colorful organic-form starburst sketches of Verdura, which you can see from our photo of one of them. The Sicilian duke began creating fabric patterns for Chanel in 1927, which shortly expanded to executing fine jewelry beginning with custom pieces for the house founder. These included the iconic Byzantine-influenced gem-adorned cuffs referencing the Maltese-military cross, which the French designer can often be seen wearing in circa-1930s photos. Chanel reproduced some of Verdura's originals for her clients, but those variations featured faux gems. This softly-shaped abstract brooch design suits goldsmith Verdura's early anti-Art-Deco aesthetic that was considered a radical departure from 1920s silver-tone geometric jewelry, which otherwise featured linear designs or figurative representation. The deconstructed bouquet of gems mixes amethyst and rose-quartz beads with natural Keshi pearls and intricate tiny gold leaves, which are discreetly wired to a Baroque-motif frame that dangles a round gem surrounded by a chain halo. Significantly, Verdura was credited with re-introducing since Victorian times the rope motif to fine jewelry. Since 1930, Verdura's unique style was influenced by travels with Chanel to explore Byzantine art, Baroque architecture, and the exotic flora-and-fauna among his native Italian aristocratic estate. The legendary fashion editor Diane Vreeland and American entertainment stars were among the first Chanel clients to acquire couture real-gem-adorned jewelry made by Verdura, while one of the two brooches treasured by Vreeland was titled "Theodora". See our photo of the Byzantine mosaic of Empress Theodora, whose image--with an abundance of teardrop pearls and colorful gems above her chest, and with a gold halo surrounding her head--could have inspired the design of our brooch. As one of the most important modern-design collaborations, Chanel's close relationship with Verdura lasted largely undocumented years in Paris, until he launched his first outside jewelry venture with a Hollywood designer-boutique after emigrating to the United States in 1934. Within five years, as a financially-backed in-demand goldsmith in the States, he founded the namesake fine-jewelry company Verdura in New...

Art Deco diamond and certified natural saltwater pearl brooch of elegant openwork geometric design centred by two principal old European cut diamonds weighing approximately 1.94 and ...

This wonderful 1930's cameo brooch and pendant, , in a sterling silver metal frame, embellished with clusters of small marcasite stones, is the perfect piece for your jewellery colle...

Trifari Art Deco exquisite carved glass fruit salad flower basket brooch c 1930s Embellished with a collection of jewel tone carved glass flowers in emerald green, sapphire blue & ru...

Charming Marcel Boucher Enamel Pave Lamb from the 1930's. Although unsigned, signature gradient pearlized enamel is use as highlights. Pave fur b...

This special original vintage Art Deco orange bakelite dangler pin and or brooch is quite special and rare. It has great movement to it and the orange ...

Rare Dujay Art Deco Fruit Salad Brooch from the 1930's, unsigned. Dujay had the highest quality manufacture of the period, in rhodium and pate de verre ...

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

This truly incredible large 1930's statement brass brooch of a blooming lily, framed by a twisted border design, is the perfect finishing touch to any outfit. Measurements of the Br...

Masive Bakelite and lucite flower unsigned bouquet brooch by B. Blumenthal Co. from the mid 1930s. The brooch consists of olive green colored hand carved bakelite leaves with amythe...

Theodor Fahrner Amythest and Enamel Brooch from the 1930's Germany. Floral patterns set with turquoise cabochons and matte baby blue enamel. 2 large square cut amythests. Signed with...

Charming Art Deco Giardinetto Brooch attributed to Coro of topaz pastes with hand painted cold enamel details and pave work. 1930's USA. 2.5" x 1.7...

An Art Deco Tiffany & Co. sapphire diamond and platinum double clip brooch, set with round brilliant-cut diamond, in pavé and claw settings and baguette-cut diamonds, in rub over...

Lovley Trifari 'Alfred Philippe' blue moonstone and ruby cabochon clip brooch with dark magenta cold enamel accents and crystal pave rhinestones. Rhodium plated base metal, rhineston...

Striking Art Deco Ruby Crystal Abstract Flower, attributed to Eisenberg. Constructed like Eisenberg pieces with hand set cabochons and large ruby glass discs forming the center of th...

Art Deco Gripoix Style Flower Clip from the 1930's. Pale chalcedony glass are bezeled in brass with sapphire crystal center with Belperron colorations. 1930's USA. 1.75".

Bakelite Art Deco Coconut Brooch from the 1930's of hand carved and patinaed green and brown bakelite. 3.5" long x 2.5" wide. 1930's USA.

Between the first ad campaign that couturier Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) commissioned from internationally admired Paris-based multimedia artist Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) for her blockbuster perfume "Shocking" in 1937, and in 1940 when they left France after launching her perfume "Sleeping" shortly before the Nazi occupation during WWII, the illustrator-cum-ceramist distinctly handmade--while traditional materials for couture costume jewelry were scarce in Paris--this whimsical red glazed ceramic brooch. It depicts a duck holding an umbrella dripped with dashes of turquoise and black glaze to appear wet. Significantly, the trombone clasp of the pin, the long-pronged gilt frame, and the text stamped on its back plate "Made In France" match a similarly sized glazed ceramic brooch of a decoratively chained bear that was published in the book Bijoux (page 146). The author Deanna Farenti Cera dated that likewise unbranded unsigned brooch to 1938 when it was commissioned for one of Schiaparelli's themed fashion shows "Circus". The invitation to that show, which was illustrated with circus characters and performing animals by Vertes' Parisian peer Christian Berard, included a domesticated white duck--notably not holding nor wearing a fashion accessory. Unusually, Schiaparelli had commissioned couture umbrellas from other artisans in the 1930s--a couple of which were acquired by TheMet museum. Another relevant Met acquisition of one of the designer's couture evening gowns, which it dates to Summer 1940, features three large glazed-ceramic fasteners in a contrasting color matching our brooch. The like findings, materials, construction, text, object and palette aside, accessory-adorned ducks were among the figurative animals commissioned by Schiaparelli for that last collection before the Germans dominated Paris by June 1940, which is evidenced by the photo of the dated gilt hatpin depicting a bejeweled bird head with a bill that appears in the book by Patrick Mauries about another Schiaparelli-associated French parurier Lina Baretti (pages 124-125). See our other listing for one of Baretti's uniquely feathered designs, which likewise has a pronged gilt frame with trombone clasp like ours, but whose partridge subject best suits an earlier Schiaparelli collection for Fall 1938 titled "Pagan". For us, distinguishing our brooch from other one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces created for Schiaparelli couture...

This exceptional pair of convertible clips represents the pinnacle of French Art Deco jewelry design, capturing the geometric sophistication, technical innovation, and refined glamou...

Lovely Trifari Enamel Floral Bouquet Clip, Alfred Phillipe from the 1930's. Original enamel which is very rare with pave crystal accents set into a high ...

Early and large Miriam Haskell large floral corsage brooch circa 1930. Of French hand made and pressed pate de verre flower heads and daffodil leaves of...

Art Deco Platinum Brooch with 5.5 Carats Diamonds, circa 1920s Overview A magnificent and important Art Deco brooch, meticulously crafted in platinum and set with approx. 5.5 carats...

Early and Exceptional Art Deco Mazer Enamel and Pave Bee Clip Brooch set in rhodium plated metal with iridiscent enamels and glass ruby cab eyes. The body is an unusual Art glass peacock...

Cartier Paris precious coral and diamond Flower-In-Hand clip/brooch in yellow gold and platinum, in antique maker’s case, France, 1930s. A testament to Art Deco's aesthetics, this C...

Lovely Late Art Deco Citrine and Tourmaline Spray set in 2 toned 14k gold. Pink gold spray with pear shaped citrines, a yellow gold leaf and green tou...

Exquisite Art Deco Brooch made of platinum with 169 diamonds - G-H flawless vvs - with a total weight of 5.12 carats. Handcrafted ca. 1930 it shows the typical Art Deco design patter...

Circa 1930's. Platinum and 18 karat yellow gold swirl brooch set with approximately 3.50 carats of round and baguette cut diamonds, and approximately 6.53 carats of square emerald c...

Rare and Massive Marcel Boucher Art Deco Pave Lily from the 1930's. High rhodium finish with pave rhinestones with round, baguette and navette stones. Extraordinary design from the l...

Coro Twist Trembler Duette Clip Brooch from the 1930's. Brooch composed of 2 floral clips with crystal baguettes, trembling flower heads and enamel. Both clips can be worn separately...

This platinum brooch, a true masterpiece of fine jewelry, is adorned with 85 gleaming diamonds totaling 3.01 carats. At the heart of this resplendent creation sits a majestic G-color...

A refined example of Tiffany & Co's Art Deco craftsmanship, this elegant platinum bar brooch dates to approximately 1930 and showcases the clean geometric lines and balanced symm...

Collectible and rare Trifari Eugenie Series Aquamarine Crest brooch. Large scale with pave leaves set in rhodium with gilt metal vines set with large faux ...

Charming Lucky Owl on Horseshoe Brooch from the 1930's. Art Deco period novelty design with large owl with faux citrine belly and jet cab eyes perched...

Designed as a fluted carved rock crystal vase overflowing with flowers and foliage Rock crystal is transparent colorless with matte finish - measuring 6.0 x 36.0 mm Featuring old Eur...

Impressive Art Deco Gripoix Style Pink Flower Clip from the 1930's. Pale pink glass petals are bezel set in brass with topaz crystal center set on gilt leaf base. A 1930's piece desi...

A beautifully detailed Art Deco shell cameo dating to circa 1925-1935, featuring an elegant classical lady in profile against a rich warm coral-orange ground. The unusually elaborate...

Unusual Czechoslovakian Art Glass Flower Brooch with multicolored paste center. Unusual slag glass style molded flower in tones of caramel and...