Art Deco Brooch

Brooches were as popular during the Art Deco era ( 1920s and 1930s) and they are a popular vintage jewellery collectable  During the art deco era brooches followed the fashion of those times and were made in art deco materials, shapes and colours.

Popular art deco materials include Plastics including Bakelite (very new at that time), Chrome, Silver, Platinum ( for the very rich), glass, Lapis Lazuli, marcasites and Rock Crystal. The colours of the time were bright and bold black, white, green, red, orange, yellow and blue. The precious gemstones Diamonds, Emeralds, Sapphires and Rubies clearly fit well with this colour palate as does Jade and black onyx.

Shapes were angular and geometric, just look at this art deco clip its geometric, yellow and made of plastic – a typical art deco brooch:

This vintage clip type brooch is a super piece of art deco jewellery. This is made of an early plastic not sure what might be Bakelite. As this is a clip type brooch it can be worn attached over the neckline or lapel of a piece of jewellery. This art deco clip measures about 5.8 cms long

The art deco brooch had a popular range of themes bold art deco geometrical shapes,  travel ( airplanes and boats), Animals ( stylised gazelles for example). Other themes include the crinoline lady which is more 1930s than 1920s.
Here’s a typical art deco brooch made of silver, set with marcasites and with a stylised boat design:

vintage brooch silver marcasite art deco brooch

This silver and marcasite brooch will date from about the 1950s. This is in the shape as an art deco boat and it measures about 4 cms long

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