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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 389664, member: 111&quot;]The elements are stamped brass rather than cast, the quality of the stamping is typical, what makes it a better piece is having the cut-to-size piece on the back to finish it more attractively, along with additional twisted wire trim - if the millefiori is enamel, it would be fairly uncommon, and they weren&#039;t really used much after the 1920s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Might be the figures are just the designer&#039;s fanciful version of some female warrior mythological beast, not really seeing any Egyptian influence.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dangle from the bottom is missing, only the fancy stamped bail remains.&nbsp; Probably just had a bead or two hanging, perhaps with caps - might look for some nice faceted beads in similar color to the prong-set stones on the pendant (maybe a teardrop?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of millefiori enamel pieces from Jargstorf&#039;s &#039;Baubles, Buttons and Beads: The Heritage of Bohemia&#039; (1993) - she calls them &#039;mosaic enamel&#039; there, but in her earlier &#039;Glass in Jewelry&#039; (1991), she refers to the technique as the more typical &#039;millefiori enamel&#039;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]135148[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]135149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here a couple of pieces marked &#039;Czechoslovakia Ges. Gesch.&#039; (&#039;Ges. Gesch.&#039; was also found on Austrian goods, as well as German), the first from the Meredith&#039;s book &#039;Buckles&#039; (2011), the second from an Art Deco-ish zodiac brooch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]135136[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]135147[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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