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Garden Party - Vintage Silver Tone 'Pierre Bex' Enamel & Crystal Brooch. This lovely brooch is crafted fro a silver metal. Featuring enamel work, round cut crystals and an Art Nouveau Victorian design. This brooch exhibits a fancy scalloped rectangular shape, featuring pretty open - work of flowers enhanced by beautiful green and black enamel work. The borders of the brooch are adorned by bright and clear sparking crystals. The Vintage piece has its original pin, and the lock is in perfect working order. The gorgeous Vintage brooch in the Victorian style, just exquisite!

The word enamel comes the High German word 'smelzan' later becoming 'esmail' in Old French. ... In history, enamels were initially applied on firstly gold, then silver, copper, bronze and more latterly on iron and steel. The term is also used for the application of decorative fusible glass applied to glass objects.

Rhinestones which are also known as diamantes or paste date back as far as the thirteenth century where they were first made from Czechoslovakian or Bohemian hand blown glass. The term rhinestone came along later, when rock crystals were discovered in and around the shores of the river Rhine in Austria.

Pierre Bex designed stunning high quality Art Nouveau and Art Deco style jewellery. All handmade in France during 1969 until the end of the 1980s. Using original stampings dating back to the late 1800s.

Measurements: brooch 58.00 mm x 24.00 mm

Stone Size: Crystal 2.00 each

Weight: 13.10 grams

Condition: Good Note: Clear resin not present, however it does not take away from the beauty of the brooch.

Origin: France

Date: 1969-1980