28868(Please use this number referring to this item)
Item Description:
This is an older dark green bakelite brooch 1-1/2" diameter. It features a portrait in the center surrounded by amber rhinestones. Embedded pin assembly. Very pretty Fall accessory.
Portrait Jewelry was a favorite of our ancestors and their skills and
love for the art were passed down for generations.The beautiful images including loved ones, flowers andpastoral romantic scenes were favorite subjects.
Although similar in design, each one became a one of a kind work of art.
Hand painting was of the finest and was done on porcelain, ivory and
other materials.For those not so artistically inclined,(or later for mass production) lithography wasapplied to the base and then "hand touched" or accented by another.One famous designer of such lithography was "Fraggonard".
These romantic scenes are usuallysigned at the bottom. Factories in Limoges, France supplied porcelain blanks and lithographieswere done for for young women to use as a parlor craftto increase their "cultural" dowery
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