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BR-11B Brooch with crowns - with agates
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A brooch with crowns and gemstones – a replica based on the extant example from Musée de Cluny 1300-1400

The brooch is hexagonal with six circles separated with finials, into which we have set cabochons 3mm in diameter. The circles with concave sides are topped with crowns that contrast starkly with the blackened background of the brooch’s base.

Size: inner diameter: 2,4 cm, external diameter: 6cm

Cast brass.

Gemstones are embedded, not glued.


Agate (Gr. Agathos – “good”) – a semi-precious mineral, multicolored, striated chalcedony variety. Its name might also derive from the river Achates (today’s Dirillo) on southern Sicily, where it was found since antiquity.

Agates are created in geodes. They consist of many multicolored, usually pale layers.

As with other stones people living in the Middle Ages (at least according to the written sources) did not discern blue stones, oftentimes just calling them all “sapphires”. It’s a very common name in contemporary sources; mentions in the written sources do not necessarily have to represent actual sapphires.

Undoubtedly many extant examples of jewellery are decorated with real sapphires, but there are some very special pieces like the brooch from the treasure from Sroda Slaska. Its centerpiece is a 2cm diameter cameo with an eagle, made from blue chalcedony.

Because of the sapphires, arguably their “king”, blue stones became a symbol of faith and heavens themselves, of trust and light. The sapphire belonged to St. Andrew.

Blue stones were also thought to cure bubonic plague, liver illnesses, fevers, bad spleen and eyes.


We offer a wide selection of natural gems: garnets, amethysts, dark blue and blue agates, reds carnelians, rhinestones, green and yellow agates.

Soon we will present our new “Brooch with crowns” made from silver and set with emeralds and sapphires.

 

 

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Dated: 1250-1450
Size: 3 x 3 cm; width of belt - more than 1,2 cm.
Sources: Archeological find from London.
Brass pin - with coral
Length - ca. 50mm
Dated: 1300-1400
Size : Inner diameter: 2,4 cm; External diameter: 6 cm
Source: Musee de Cluny
Dated: 1250-1500
Dated: 1300-1400
Size : Inner diameter: 2 cm; External diameter: 6 cm
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