Featured Cobalt Blue Big Brooch

No name brooch, but does anyone know who might have made it ?

Gracias..

Billy D.

 

geeze Billy......that's a nice one ..

 

Thanks, You..JK "komokwa"

 

Beautiful!
No clue.....
I'll guess Fred.
But I've no clue.

 

Fred ? Doesn't the filigree kind of look Austrian ?

 

I was kidding....
That should've been a wink with Fred.

 

Some of these unsigned pieces are almost impossible to attribute to a maker or country even. The filigree alone reminds me (a bit) of Portugal, but that's not much to go on.

One question. In the first photo above the gray pearl (right around "1 o'clock"), it looks like the petal is filled with something -- is there a rhinestone or some kind of stone filling the petal? Only asking because if yes, looks like something might be missing in the petal below it. Am I seeing that correctly?

 

<3 LOVE <3

 

Marie will probably know when she sees it.

 

Hi Lucille, sorry for late reply. Nothing missing

 

Marie Marie, where can she be...

 

this will tag her to come have a look for you billyd
@Marie Forjan

 

Okay cool

 

This is one of those mystery pieces. It could be American and probably is, but the Austrians made similar pieces. It's not a piece of D&E but it could be just about anyone else. D&E wouldn't have used a foiled, i.e. painted, stone in an open-backed setting. Among other things. The big stone looks like a European import.

 

I've seen the large stone referred to as faux lapis. Kind of an art glass version. There are a few vintage brooches on Ebay with faux lapis stones like this, beads too.

(Not suggesting this brooch is from the same maker as the one above, just showing for comparison of the stone.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Sty...609347?hash=item3ac570d543:g:-94AAOSwnNBXUbbm

 

sweet, Thanks

 

Thanks again evelyb30 for helping out.

 

Nice post Lucille, Thank You