Fruit Brooches. Below are some examples of fruit shaped brooches or brooches with fruit in their design including a Van Cleef & Arpels apple brooch and a hardstone brooch in the shape of raspberries.
Van Cleef & Arpels 18K Gold Diamond Ruby Apple Brooch
METAL: 18k gold. GEMSTONES: Diamonds approx. 0.15ctw. ruby. MEASUREMENTS: Brooch is 52mm x 40mm. MARKED: VC&A, tested 18k. WEIGHT: 39.3 grams.
Sold for $2,100 at Hampton Estate Auction in 2019
Gold brooch made by Alfred Lorking Made by Lorking, Alfred in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c 1857. Large brooch, a clover leaf shape formed by grapevine and vine leaves in two-colour gold with a central bunch of grapes in seed pearls, in original morocco leather box with label: ‘A. LORKING, Late HALE, GOLDSMITH, 165 George Street, SYDNEY’.
Reference: Museum of Applied Art and Sciences
CLAUDE LALANNE “POMME BOUCHE” BROOCH designed 1990 produced by Arthus Bertrand, Paris patinated bronze monogrammed C.L and stamped LALANNE / A-B PARIS 1⅝ x 1⅝ x ⅝ in. (4 x 4 x 1.5 cm)
Sold for 750 USD at Sotheby’s in 2019
Brooch in the form of green glass grapes on a branch of silver backed in gold with rose-cut diamonds ca. 1889 (made)
This brooch is very similar in design to that of a grapes brooch by the firm of Fonsèque and Olive. Olive, who had worked for the renowned Parisian goldsmith and jeweller, Lucien Falize, went into partnership with the jeweller M. Fonsèque in 1885. Olive’s designs, such as the coffee bean brooch and the grapes brooch of 1889 were very popular for a number of years and it was his ingenuity in design which led to the firm’s success.
Reference: © Victoria and Albert Museum
A hardstone fruit brooch, circa 1950 Realistically modelled as a branch of hardstone raspberries and foliage, highlighted by single-cut diamonds, maker’s mark IK, Austrian assay mark, length 6.0cm
Sold for £ 937 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2015
Brooch. A spray of leaves and fruit in coral and bloomed two-colour gold. 1830 (circa)
Reference: © The Trustees of the British Museum
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