Featured 18k gold brooch

I found this 10 years ago, just know is 18k, no marks.

 

What is it you want to know?

I can tell you it's an Art Nouveau watch pin with Egyptian influence. It's a shame the enamel is damaged. Also it looks like the pin stem and clasp are replacements.

Since it is 18k the stones are probably rubies and diamonds, but you would have to have them tested to be sure.

Please go back to your original post (the one above) and edit the photos to "full image" instead of thumbnails. Here is a helpful link on how to post photos to these forums:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/making-a-post-and-uploading-pictures.16038/

 

Thanks, i'll do it. Just want to know age.

 

It is beautiful, late 19th century, Art Nouveau. The clasp is a replacement, but that doesn't matter very much.
Although it refers to history, I don't see any Egyptian influence. The hair jewellery the girls is wearing looks northern European, Nordic or early Medieval European in general.

 

Probably a job for @kyratango on the enamel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT is a delicious little item!!!!! OR she can maybe tell you what to do!!!

 

Oh yes, this is right up her alley. But if Moeller were to do it himself.... it requires a bit of artistry as well as skill.

 

She's wearing what a turn of the century "artistic" lady would have worn. Art Nouveau into the Arts and Crafts era. I'd have jumped all over her too.

 

By the way, Moeller, this beauty can also be clipped on to a necklace, that is what the hook is for.

 

Google images for art nouveau byzantine lady brooch to see some others
A discussion on Collectors Weekly on a byzantine lady stick pin with same face:

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/226588-grandma-passed-down-and-also-wants-to-kn?in=691
Aquitaine, thank you for the tag, but I still haven't find the right stuff for iridescent pink/white enamel repairs

 

Hook's on the wrong end; it's on the bottom, making her a watch or pendant pin.

 

I think that this and the others in the links are based on Alphonse Mucha designs
https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&...1.64.psy-ab..0.10.1670...0i67k1.0.mK16NREifF8

 

I found this piece in a hotel parking lot , what a luck.

 

Free gold. My absolute favorite kind!

 

Of course it is, the photo is upside down, and my funny brain couldn't translate to right side up. I was already wondering about the pin being the wrong way around, but never made the connection.

I think you're right. Although Mucha also painted blondes, she looks most like this brunette:


The way the pearls are set around the brooch reminds me of one of the jewels Mucha's Moravian 'Fate' has in her hand:

 

It's seems the hook is the original place, that is correct?

 

Maybe Mucha's ideas came from egypt, i got a journal universel from 1854 and take this pics.

 

https://www.google.fr/search?client...q=mucha+byzantine+heads&gs_l=mobile-gws-mucha byzantine heads:
img.3..0i30i19k1.56464.62607.0.63510.16.16.0.0.0.0.289.2906.0j13j3.16.0....0...1.1.64.mobile-gws-img..3.13.2365...41j30i10k1j0i5i30i19k1.0.JbWYJUDBGxM

 

The way her eyes are painted with black lines top and bottom made me think Egyptian.

 

This is, as already mentioned, a Byzantine head watch pin, inspired by Mucha and Sarah Bernhardt - dating from around 1890 -1910 and made by Newark manufacturer Alling & Co., the same head is found on a bracelet in 'The Glitter & The Gold' (1997), and similar examples are found online.

https://m.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2965B/lots/9

Would hope that if I lost my antique gold brooch in a hotel parking lot, it would be turned into their lost and found...

~Cheryl