Charles Frederick Worth (France) Vintage, Brooch, Morning Star

Charles Frederick Worth (France) Vintage, Brooch, Morning Star SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos ...Configured as a rigorously architectural Morning Star, the brooch asserts itself as an emblematic object that traverses the conceptual divide between figural iconography and sculptural abstraction. Cast in a gold-tone alloy and lacquered with bevel-cut vitreous black enamel, its five-pointed silhouette draws simultaneously from the visual languages of military insignia, ecclesiastical symbology, and Art Deco formalism—three traditions unified by an emphasis on symbolic authority and geometric clarity. At the brooch’s nucleus, a stylized solar burst radiates from a polished central sphere, its fluted metal rods recalling both the heraldic language of celestial regalia and the compressed dynamism of twentieth-century kinetic sculpture. This radiant core functions as both ornamental focal point and metaphysical aperture—bridging material craft and esoteric suggestion. The brooch unfolds through a meticulously engineered dual-plane construction. A gold-toned star, rimmed with filigreed perimeter detailing and bordered by microgranulation reminiscent of bulino beading, operates as a structural armature. Within it lies an inset configuration of trapezoidal enamel panels—flush-set yet angled—to generate fractured reflectivity and spatial motion.