Art Deco Paste Stone Halley's Comet Brooch

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Art Deco Paste Stone Halley's Comet Brooch

$1,000.00

Description

DATE: Art Deco, c.1920

A striking Art Deco brooch, modelled as a comet. Its fully set with white and green paste stones, the main event- a large and vibrant green paste stone, bezel set. Its surrounded by a halo of white paste stones, sparkly and bright, with strips of "light" further set with white paste. At each end, green stones follow the white, finely surrounded by silver millegrain. Its modelled in silver throughout, dates from the Art Deco period, and makes a lively addition to your jacket, collar or hat.

Halley's Comet is named after the Royal Astronomer Sir Edmund Halley, who was the first to realize that reported comet sightings between 1531 and 1682 were actually of one single object, that orbited the sun roughly every 75 years. As such, he was able to predict, with remarkably accuracy, the year in which it would re-appear - 1759 - and when it did, they gave the comet his name. When Halley's comet was about to re-appear in 1835, people got really excited, and jewellery was made from excitement!

STONES

Green and white paste stones

MEASUREMENTS

9.8 x 1.9cm

WEIGHT

15g

MARKS

Stamped SILVER

CONDITION

Very good