Fedoskino style brooches

Fedoskino is a famouse Russian painting school of miniture painting. It is better know by lacquer boxes but artists as well paint some jewelry for women. Brooches are painted on mother-of-pearl bases that are nested into metal frames with pin. This metal looks like silver but it is not silver (sometimes silver is used but such brooches are quite expensive as silver in Russia is expensive metal. On back side of a brooch safe pin is fixed. Such brooches look very elegant and beautifully. Special transparent paints do not hide rich structure of natural mother-of-pearl that is used for brooches.

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PR-319 Mother-of-pearl brooch Birch-tree forest Price $14.00 SOLD	Bfp-343 Pendant Roses Price $11.50 SOLD

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