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Strange brooch possibly glass

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heartofglass:
I agree, it really looks like cast milk glass.....I have a fairly similar one except it's a pendant rather than a brooch & set in silver.
Possibly made in Bohemia by one of the many glass jewellery makers of the region,& the description of the setting as made up of twisted wires suggests to me the "Gurtler" work of the Sudetengermans of Bohemia. It is a traditional style of metal-craft used for jewellery settings in this area.
A lovely piece & quite collectable.

Lustrousstone:
Presumably though if you cast glass, i.e., poured molten glass into a mould you would have a smooth back and not a pitted suface. Surely, there is no reason why pate de verre could not have been used and then enamelled. It would not have to be a paste containing other colours.

Frank:
For a smooth surface you need to either grind and polish or use a mould. P-d-V tends to be smoother although some modern P-d-V is less fused giving a more textured finish than you tend to get with early 20th C P-d-V.

Lustrousstone:
Look what I just found on ebay

Pat:
Oh you little star you! Thank you for that.


Pat

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