18K yellow gold and platinum brooch, with amethyst diamonds and pearls from the 1940s

Introducing our beautiful gold, pearls, diamonds and amethyst brooch, a striking and colorful piece with the distinctive style of the 1940s. Made in 18 carat yellow gold, this piece brings together the characteristics of the period such as the use of yellow gold, colored gems and the influence of the Deco style.

The decades after World War II, have a particular and distinctive style marked by the priority use of yellow gold and colored gems, large-scale showy jewelry such as large hollow bracelets and the presence of synthetic gems, especially rubies and sapphires and aquamarine imitations. Gems such as amethysts, citrines, turquoises and others considered minor in previous periods are again gaining prominence as diamonds, like platinum have become very expensive and those used are generally small and as accompaniment to other larger colored gems. In the 1940s the influence of the Art Deco style is still very noticeable with its decorative geometric patterns, scrolls and the use of baguette carving and in general in all jewelry of this and the following decade, floral and animal styles are favored, large pendants that can be worn on necklaces or bracelets and pieces that can be worn in different ways such as brooch, clip-on earring or piece that can be passed through a tubogas necklace or bracelet.

Surrounded by 20 old-cut diamonds set in platinum settings, the 15-carat emerald-cut amethyst stands out for its intense violet color and is contained in a circumference delimited, first, by a circle with a fluted finish consisting of the platinum setting on which the diamonds are set and a yellow gold cord. 20 shell pearls set on a star-shaped structure finish this brooch with pins designed to be used also as a necklace or bracelet.

The brooch has twenty old-cut diamonds making 0.20 carats, 20 pearls of 5 mm, a diameter of 41 mm and weighs 32 grams.