Brooch, Damascene Style Floral Tulip, Faux Pearl Center & Buds, Black & White Enamel Leaves, Gold Tone, Toledoware, Vintage 1980s sports-collectibles Films: Grease (1978)

Films: Grease (1978)

yellow enamel florals on black ground

The artist Marchaude has not been further identified

a mid-century importer whose selections leaned toward the refined and the feminine

Brooch, Damascene Style Floral Tulip, Faux Pearl Center & Buds, Black & White Enamel Leaves, Gold Tone, Toledoware, Vintage 1980s sports-collectibles Films: Grease (1978)The art of Toledo, applied to something as quiet as a tulip with pearls. This Damascene brooch Toledoware, the Spanish tradition of inlaying gold and silver into darkened metal features a stylized tulip with a faux pearl at the center and three additional pearl buds at the tips, surrounded by beautifully detailed black and white enamel leaves. Unmarked but unmistakably well made. The enamelwork is perfect. At 1. 75 1. 5 inches it is wearable on