Featured Butterfly wing brooch

Any idea of date/origin please?
Metal is very lightweight base metal.
Butterfly wing is behind glass- don’t know if it’s real or not but it’s a stunning colour. Quite large at 6.5cm across.
Thankyou

 

Amazing colour, K. I would say 1890-1900, but let's wait for the costume joolies.

 

I find it a slightly odd mismatch of the cheaply stamped out base and the stunning centre. They look like they could have come from two bits of jewellery and married a long time ago. Obviously it’s lost all its colour on the base over the years.

 

It looks to me like they were made to be together from the start, but wdik.

 

A heck of a lot more than me!

Maybe you are right as the corners align so well with the pattern.

 

It would have looked even more flamboyant when it was new, with all the enamel still in place. Perfect new project, I think.

 

Do you think each of the nobbles was a different colour- so little paint to go on. What's left doesn't look shiny like enamel but I suppose it's very elderly paint!

 

I think it's a possibility.

I'd be interested to hear @Hollyblue on the fit. Bezel doesn't look right to me, but sometimes magnification makes things look wonkier than they actually are.

 

Czech/Bohemian which makes me wonder if it isn't good art glass. I'd think early 20th.

 

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I think you are correct OBB. How incredibly clever to make glass that looks so like butterfly wing. And clever if you to know about it!

 

There you go. I am very fond of Czech and Bohemian art glass.

 

Amazing. Those Bohemians/Czechs could copy almost anything in glass.