Featured Art deco brass and glass bead bracelet?

I've never come across this before. It's a beautiful brass filigree and molded glass or faux coral bead bracelet. The clasp is a pin slide that appears to be handmade. I'm getting an art deco 1920s-30s vibe. Possibly Egyptian revival? Am I way off?

 

You see that type of clasp on bracelets from India & from the Middle East, perhaps other places as well.

 

You do indeed, and often Turkish, Macedonian.

 

I was thinking Turkish, but anywhere on the Eastern end of the Mediterranean .

 

Ok. Thank you for the input. Is it as old as I think it is?

 

How old do you think it is?

 

I thought it looks quite old circa 1930s

 

The brass looks awfully bright & shiny for something 90 years old. Afraid I think it is fairly contemporary. You can't go by style; traditions carry on.

 

someone explain to me how that's Art Deco?

 

Interesting. That seller is saying Turkish which I think we can agree on. They also say the metal is gold washed silver not brass. I'll have to test the metal on this because I'd be surprised if that's the case. 1920's-30's which is about what I thought. But the beads look molded on my bracelet and that set being offered on Rubylane so I don't agree that these are coral but rather some kind of glass or ceramic.

 

Souvenir from Egypt. My grandmother brought back identical to this in the late 1960s. Think a matching necklace too.

Debora

 

Yep. Like this. (Think this set a tad older because of earrings' screw backs.)

Debora

 

I was wondering that, too.

 

I suspect someone used it as a online descriptor and others picked it up and repeated.

Debora

 

My favorite is when Egyptian jewellery made yesterday is described as Egyptian Revival. Has anyone told them they were dead?

 

that seller is trying hard to sell.....they'll say anything!

We're not selling anything , but instead giving away free informed opinions....

think about that...

 

100% true. Egyptian ethnic jewellery, no Revival, simply ethnic, but mostly made for the tourist trade.
Similar ones are still being made, although the older ones are nicer imo.

I would say mekanah's is also 1960s. Brass and glass, in a lovely ethnic composition. Possibly gilding on the brass

It isn't. It was described as such in a book by Roseann Ettinger (for reasons only known to herself), and many sellers copy her attribution.

 

The quatrefoil connectors originated in that general area. They were probably introduced to Egypt through trade with Palestine or brought over during the Arab conquest of North Africa.

The lovely filigree is classic North African though.

The pin clasp is very generic, it can be found in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was also used in parts of Latin America at some stage.

 

It's a sturdy design, easily made. I wouldn't be surprised if it moved around a lot. I can picture bracelets with the clasp ending up in another part of the world, some metalsmith saying "why didn't I think of that" and into the vernacular it goes.