Featured Please tell me about this brooch!

This is not mine and I’m not buying, just a learning quest!
It is described as Georgian Renaissance style with morganite.
What am I looking at? AH with that enamel?
Thanks for looking

 

I think that's Indian. The stones look it, with that setting. What say you @Any Jewelry ?

 

It is an utterly charming brooch, K, thanks for showing us.

It looks European to me, but I would have to search a little further for whodunnit, which is not something I'm up to now.

It is antique, that is obvious. Not sure which period it is though.
The brooch pads are later, but are antique additions imo, and the placing looks awkward.
It may have been (part of?) another type of jewel.

I have just been reading on post-Mannerist enameling in European jewellery making. It went on for quite a while in some parts, but this could be some kind of revival. Like AH revival jewellery, but probably another country.

Maybe rural French, possibly rural Iberian?

@kyratango , @Dessert58 , your insights please?

 

Thanks AJ, The plot thickens!

 

Maybe kyra or my dessert chocolatey neighbour can enlighten us.

 

Ha.... I've seen this enamel colors combo before, but on which book
Age is undoubtfully there, and I agree the brooch fitting is a later alteration
Don't think it is French provincial, nor Austro Hungarian, I have rather a Spanish feeling!

 

I had this kind of enamels in mind when I saw this piece!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1196245332/18th-century-gold-enamel-and-pearl
https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?id=941803

 

Yay, kyra!
Spain is indeed one of the countries where Mannerist style jewellery was still made after the fashion had stopped in other parts of Europe. A bit more sloppy and naive than period Mannerism, but very charming and eye-catching.
If I remember correctly, timewise ca 1700 is the right date for late Spanish Mannerism.

 

That looks spot on.

 

Is the centerstone a piece of cut glass?

 

Wow, well done Kyra!
That has definite similarities and those gold ties are unusual. Are you saying this brooch could be c1700?

 

Are you gonna tell us where this is on sale?

 

Later in 18th IMO, as it seems to be colonial or provincial, fashions took some time to evolve

 

Lol
I may consider putting a bid in. I wasn’t going to , I was just being nosey but it seems it’s more interesting than I first thought. Doubt I can afford it though

 

All of the images of Morganite I looked at appear to be a much lighter pink. The scratches look like a scratched glass stone. When looking into the center piece, it looks like stone rather than glass, but I think it could be glass.

 

Could be. I’m not sure when morganite was first used in jewellery? I too thought it was a paler pink

 

I think the center stone may be an almandine garnet or a glass simulant...

 

I was wondering if it could be a different type of garnet.
Kyra, are all garnets soft? I have a childhood birthstone ring of old garnet that is scratched way beyond this. But, this appears to be more of the scratches on glass bauble wear, my garnet scratches are more white in appearance. I have an old glass ring (it's blue glass) and its scratches look like this one.

 

Just to add a technical point, Morganite was discovered in 1910, so if the stone is Morganite (which I doubt) it must be a later replacement.