18K Yellow Gold Natural Ruby and Diamond Rooster Brooch. A GIA Report is Included

Description

18K yellow gold natural ruby and diamond rooster design brooch.

A GIA Gemological Report comes with the 18K gold ruby and diamond Rooster brooch. The GIA report is included with the pictures.

Amazing piece of jewelry in style of Tiffany quality.

The rooster brooch is set with approximately 5.00 carats total weight of natural rubies and approximately 0.20 carats total weight of single cut diamonds. The diamonds have a clarity grade of VS-2 and a color grade of G. Diamonds are set at the neck of the Rooster.

The 18K yellow gold ruby and diamond Rooster brooch weighs 23.20 grams.

The Rooster brooch measures approximately 2.00” tall and 2.00″ wide.

Circa 1950s, 18K, Tiffany & Co., American. This strutting Tiffany & Co. chanticleer brooch features ruby-set plumage and coxcomb with diamond-adorned cape feathers at his neck. This is a perfect Tiffany story: gorgeous design, everyday wearability, classic taste, and superb workmanship.

Remarks: “Animal Motifs raged in the fifties. Town and country or the boardroom, this brooch is just as fresh today as it was 60 years ago.”

The brooch will come in a quality gift box.

Tiffany & Co.~

Tiffany & Co. is one of the most prominent purveyors of luxury goods in the United States, and has long been an important arbiter of style in the design of diamond engagement rings. A young Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed to his future wife, Eleanor, with a Tiffany ring in 1904. Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors and members of the Russian imperial family all wore Tiffany & Co. jewels. And Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis preferred Tiffany china for state dinners at the White House.

Although synonymous with luxury today, the firm started out rather modestly. Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young founded it in Connecticut as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium” in 1837, at a time when European imports still dominated the nascent American luxury market. In 1853, Charles Tiffany — who in 1845 had launched the company’s famed catalog, the Blue Book, and with it, the firm’s signature robin’s-egg blue, which he chose for the cover — shifted the focus to fine jewelry. In 1868, Tiffany & Co. gained international recognition when it became the first U.S. firm to win an award for excellence in silverware at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. From then on, it belonged to the pantheon of American luxury brands.

At the start of the Gilded Age, in 1870, Tiffany & Co. opened its flagship store, described as a “palace of jewels” by the New York Times, at 15 Union Square West in Manhattan. Throughout this period, its designs for silver tableware, ceremonial silver, flatware and jewelry were highly sought-after indicators of status and taste. They also won the firm numerous accolades, including the grand prize for silverware at the Paris Exposition of 1878. Among the firm’s glittering creations from this time are masterworks of Art Nouveau jewelry, such as this delicate aquamarine necklace and this lavish plique-à-jour peridot and gold necklace, both circa 1900.

When Charles Lewis Tiffany died, in 1902, his son Louis Comfort Tiffany became the firm’s design director. Under his leadership, the Tiffany silver studio was a de facto design school for apprentice silversmiths, who worked alongside head artisan Edward C. Moore. The firm produced distinctive objects inspired by Japanese art and design, North American plants and flowers, and Native American patterns and crafts, adding aesthetic diversity to Tiffany & Co.’s distinguished repertoire.

Tiffany is also closely associated with diamonds, even lending its name to one particularly rare and exceptional yellow stone. The firm bought the Tiffany diamond in its raw state from the Kimberley mines of South Africa in 1878. Cut to create a 128.54-carat gem with an unprecedented 82 facets, it is one of the most spectacular examples of a yellow diamond in the world. In a broader sense, Tiffany & Co. helped put diamonds on the map in 1886 by introducing the American marketplace to the solitaire diamond design, which is still among the most popular engagement-ring styles. The trademark Tiffany® Setting raises the stone above the band on six prongs, allowing its facets to catch the light. A lovely recent example is this circa-2000 platinum engagement ring. Displaying a different design and aesthetic (but equally chic) is this exquisite diamond and ruby ring from the 1930s.

Note: The brooch was sent to Tiffany & Co. in New York to have the Tiffany & Co. bone tag attached to the back of the Rooster brooch. Because there was no Tiffany & Co. bone tag or Tiffany & Co. marking (18K is marked on the brooch). Tiffany & Co. could not authenticate the brooch as Tiffany & Co. I have come across a few of the Rooster brooches some are marked Tiffany & Co. and some are not. It could of been the time the brooch was made. I was told by a manager at Tiffany’s in the repair department in New York that many years ago some wine glasses that she had heard of where not all marked either. My guess is the not marking is watched much more closely. A Tiffany & Co. marking is the only way Tiffany’s can or will authenticate their items. The GIA can not authenticate the brooch as Tiffany because this is not something the GIA does, just the gemstones, diamonds and gold. Also, giving the brooch a report with a report number to the brooch.