Insect Brooches Archives - Antique Brooches

Flies and Bees Brooches Price Guide

Antique Brooches — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:25:27 +0000

Price guide to antique and vintage brooches designed as flies or bees. Bees and flies can be very similar so this section has combined the two. Bees and flies were popular brooch designs during the Victorian era.

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Victorian Butterfly Brooches

Antique Brooches — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 08:46:16 +0000

Price guide to Victorian butterfly brooches. Butterfly brooches have never lost their popularity since they became fashionable during the Georgian era. Victorian butterfly brooches can be purely ornamental but they can also be symbolic as the butterfly signifies the soul. It also has religious a meaning as the butterfly signifies the resurrection or rebirth. The caterpillar signifies life while the chrysalis signifies death.

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Opal Dragonfly Brooches

Antique Brooches — Mon, 14 May 2018 08:11:27 +0000

Price guide to antique and vintage opal dragonfly brooches. Dragonflies are beautiful insects which have inspired many jewelry makers for centuries. Opals, with their beautiful play of colors, make excellent gemstones for dragonfly brooches.

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Ruby Butterfly Brooches

Antique Brooches — Wed, 09 May 2018 08:41:42 +0000

Price guide to antique / vintage ruby butterfly brooches. The beautiful pink to blood-red color of rubies make them exceptional gemstones for adding a touch of color to butterfly brooches.

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Diamond, Pearl and Emerald Butterfly Brooch

Antique Brooches — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 15:57:03 +0000

A Diamond, Pearl and Emerald Butterfly Brooch. The body composed of a single grey pearl and central collet-set single old-cut diamond to pavé old-cut diamond-set wings, cabochon emerald three stone accents and diamond eyes, the legs with engraved detail, circa 1930, 5.0cmSold for GBP 4,375 at Christie’s

Emeralds are regarded as the traditional birthstone for May as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Cancer.

One of the quainter anecdotes about emeralds was told by the 16th-century historian Brantôme, who referred to the many impressive emeralds the Spanish under Cortez had brought back to Europe from Latin America. On one of Cortez’s most notable emeralds he had the text engraved, Inter Natos Mulierum non sur-rexit mayor (“Among those born of woman there hath not arisen a greater,” Matthew 11:11) which referred to John the Baptist. Brantôme considered engraving such a beautiful and simple product of nature sacrilegious and considered this act the cause for Cortez’s loss of an extremely precious pearl (to which he dedicated a work, A beautiful and incomparable pearl), and even for the death of King Charles IX of France, who died soon afterward.

The chief deity of one of India’s most famous temple, the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, is the goddess Meenakshi, whose idol is traditionally thought to be made of emerald. Reference: Wikipedia

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