ANSWER: PAINTED PORCELAIN POSSIBLY CRAFT PIECE
I have searched all morning and last night in books and online trying to find this little hand painted crescent pin to identify it. I am under the impression it is Russian or Swedish. I don't know why I think that except for the gold foil paint. Am I on the right track and would this be from the late 1800s?
Cynthia Fore Miller
I have searched all morning and last night in books and online trying to find this little hand painted crescent pin to identify it. I am under the impression it is Russian or Swedish. I don't know why I think that except for the gold foil paint. Am I on the right track and would this be from the late 1800s?
Cynthia Fore Miller
"No help on date, just wanted to say how pretty your pins are! I especially love the shape and color on the first one--I do agree with you about the "folk" aspect to it," --Carrie Pollack, 12/19/08
"Lovely Pin Cynthia.. it reminds me of the Painted Porcelain pins of the late 1800's - 1920's I have never seen one in a crescent shape.,, but Moons and Stars where popular during that time frame." --Amy Baker, 12/19/08
"Paintings on porcelain were all the rage in the late 1800s, around
1890s. It could also be French, think Limoges, or even home made. I look at the crescent and Limoges comes to mind but because the painting is not defined, it might be home made. I have one that is a couple strolling, that one is actually a transfer, circa 1900s, after the factories figured out they were in fashion. The setting is actually 10k Gold on mine, you might want to have that one tested. Many ladies had more time to spare and embraced a hobby. The most popular was porcelain painting, it was the hip thing of its time. If you saw "Little Women" the movie, towards the end of the story they are sitting in the garden painting porcelain pieces." --Vera Battemarco, 12/19/08
"As for your crescent, I always think of these painted porcelain brooches as Victorian and never gave them a place of origin. The ones I have don't have as much gold but everything else fits. In Popular Jewelry by Roseann Ettinger, she places these hand painted bar pins circa 1905." --Linda Lombardo, 12/19/08
"Thanks so much, Linda. I don't have Popular Jewelry but I looked in Warman's and two Victorian books I have and didn't find anything similar. I appreciate you help." --Cynthia Fore Miller, 12/19/08
"I agree with Vera about the porcelain floral pin, first thing I thought of was the home decorated china you see in antique shops and with the setting being so easy to place the painted piece in to it, not something a jeweler would have to do." --Dan Day, 12/19/08
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