The finest lace-like Berlin Iron brooch c.1820.
Undulating leaf-like design with three delicate original ‘en pampille’ drops.
The design is likely from a parure by Geiss.
2 inches across, 2.75 inches to bottom drop.
Berlin iron jewellery symbolised patriotism in Prussia against Napoleon in the early c19th originating at the Royal Ironworks at Gleiwitz in 1806.Reputedly in 1814 no less than forty thousand pieces of iron jewellery were made.
Johann Conrad Geiss (1771- 1846)and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) were both leading German designers of the period and were responsible for some of the best Berlin Iron jewellery designs.