Crafted during the transitional Edwardian years, this brooch is characterized by its mirrored appearance and double-sided fastening system. This style pin is known as a jabot pin, a term that derives from mid-17th century fashion describing the ornamental fabric at the neckline of a man garment that is often pleated or ruffled. Originally, such brooches served a functional purpose, as they were used to secure the ruffled neck piece in place. After the 17th century, they fell out of fashion for the most part until the 20th century.
By 1900, they resurfaced to secure capes and capes and capelets, and by the 1920s and 1930s, jabots surged in popularity. But particular thanks is owed to the influential designs of famed jewelry house Cartier, whose 1927 designs for jabots spearheaded new interest in the jewels. During the Art Deco period, jabots were pinned horizontally across collar points and in front of the collar band, an orientation that meant the stem was hidden beneath the fabric. When worn this way, the effect was a “floating” matched, jeweled pair of ends on both collar points. A hallmark of late 19th to early 20th century design was the honing of the functional arts, a tenet beautifully embodied in the resurgence of jabot pins.
Just like stick pins, these brooch styles were popular amongst both men and women during the first quarter and a half of the 20th century, contrary to the common misperception that brooches were exclusively a woman’s accessory. Rather, such glittering embellishments were badges of status, and enhanced and added variety to one’s wardrobe by stylishly securing cravats, ascots, coats, capes and lapels on menswear and womenswear. As time went on, the look of jabots were creatively reimagined to an asymmetrical vertical orientation, meant to be worn on one lapel or the other. Regardless or symmetry of orientation, the jabot's defining characteristic of duality ensured that any kind of jabot could be worn as a single ornament or 'split' so as to be worn as two separate jewels.
This brooch is wonderfully weighty, celebrating easy curvatures and boasting a more feminine design than many later jabots of the Deco movement. Both ends feature a matched pair of hefty amethysts notable for their dense, earthy opacity, their internal swirls of natural color zoning, and their dimensionality, all of which reveal the gemstones' organic origins. In delicate sophistication, these softly arched amethysts are framed with a smooth gold bezel, granting refinement to the untamed purple galaxies encapsulated within both stones. Indeed, the visual balance of Mother Nature's whims and the thoughtful linework of the artist's touch enliven the piece with the very best of Edwardian design; the brevity of the Edwardian period can be appreciated for its recollection of Art Nouveau's ode to nature and its nod forward to the careful geometries of the Art Deco movement.
Like all historic jewelry, every shape, form, gemstone choice, and color are intentional and supply rich meanings beyond mere materiality:
In sum, this jewel supplies its wearer with symbolic meaning that emphatically, perhaps even prophetically, supplements its utilitarian purpose.
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