Featured Revival Art Nouveau?

Another brooch I’m looking at.

I’m not sure what to make of it. It’s sterling and marked according to the seller. It’s listed as enamel. All my enameled pieces are guilloché, etc. I don’t know much about this stained glass effect. I think it’s eye catching and I haven’t seen anything like it.

The seller marked this as an “unknown period” but it looks new. Thoughts?

 

Gorgeous! I agree, Art Nouveau Revival. The enamel without metal backing is called plique á jour.
Plique á jour AN style pieces and AN replicas are still being made. There is a Dutch firm that makes them, but I don't know if this is one of theirs.

 

New, new, new..... Appealing by the design, flooding Ebay and Etsy when you search for antique ones
Resin enamel, made to look like "plique à jour" Art Nouveau

 

Ah, hence the fancy colours. Thanks for the info.

 

Those above are genuine antiques.
original and... modern copy:

 

Not even a real copy, that face is extremely different, someone I wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

 

I don't think that's plique a jour. Looks more to me like stained glass assembled using copper foil.

 

No no, the resin holds by itself in the open cells when carefully applied
It is how I kyratise my damaged plique jewellery
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I see a lot of solder on OP's brooch, and a lot of irregularity in the framework. I don't think its resin.

 

Is this something to be careful of? Is that a bad thing?

 

This Ebay listing is same item, 45millimeters by 25millimeters....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143277223219

Do you really think they mounted stained glass this tiny, with solder???

Resin is more obvious on this similar production one:

 

Yes. I've done it. Might be worth checking online to see if there are stained glass jewelry patterns, or even kits, out there.

It's not a bad thing. It's an attractive brooch.

 

@moreotherstuff Updated the comment above with another pic!

Appealing jewellery, as I said, but totally new commercially made.

 

That’s because it’s the same item, lol the listing I found was on eBay too so I’m pretty sure it’s the same one!

Zooming in on the picture it looks like there’s some kind of little box in her head. What do you think?

 

Hehe, That seemed too to me
Now you have it in hand, can you look through a loupe to see if the rectangle showed is a mark of some sort? Edit: I just saw you were only looking at the brooch and asked opinion

 

The resin jewelry seems to consistently use cast framework to hold the colors. It results in a regularity in the lines that I am not seeing here.

The biggest argument for it being resin might be in the hair, where some of the bits seem to be two-toned, but that's also where the framework seems most irregular and soldered. Maybe it's half-and-half.

 

I found another with the same body, different colors. I think it’s definitely revival and probably a mass produced one and not a kit or repair.

Thanks everyone for your two cents, as always!

 

Only have a look to how many of these new plique are on Ebay now...
Just enter "plique" in jewelry category

 

If it's resin, I would expect a meniscus, a rounding at the edges of the colored bits.



Could be concave or convex.

 

Thanks, @kyratango. As a 'general rule' I find that kind of comparative post is SO important and helpful, so, particularly when a novice in this area like me sees the differences in 'aesthetics', as opposed to form, content, methods, etc., it just 'pops out' how important the experiential factor is when dealing with an object, especially one being assessed 'in a vacuum'. There is just NO comparison in the beauty of the originals with the repros... and that is usually true in every field, so we all fall prey to forgetting to assess the object in the context of the originals. Side by side if necessary. thx.

(And that's why we can get fooled. vanity or excitement takes over.)