Vintage Metropolitan Museum of Art MMA NYC Diadem Flower Enamel Stick Pin Egypt

Vintage Metropolitan Museum of Art Diadem Flower Enamel Stick Pin Original Box Elegant gold pin with a multicolor enamel design. Features red, green, gold & black accents. DIADEM FLOWER STICKPIN Egypt, Prolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C Rogers Fund, 1945 Reliefs and paintings on tomb walls provide evidence of how jewelry was made and used in ancient Egypt. Diadems and other jewelry not only beautified the wearer, but sometimes served an amuletic purpose, protecting the owner. Finely worked pieces of velry were commonly placed in the tombs of the royal family & because these objects were prized by robbers, few examples of this ancient jewelry have survived. The most popular Egyptian motifs were forms taken from objects, such as shells and flowers. The intricate Museum's stickpin comes from the centerpiece of an Egyptian diadem. Flowers often adorn women's heads on reliefs, and sculptures, and their inclusion on diadems represents a translation into a permanent medium that were commonly made with fresh flowers. Jewelers used narrow strips of gold sheet that were shaped into the curved petals of the flower and attached to a gold base plate. Inlays of colorful carnelian and rurquoise-colored enamel were then inserted into the open cells formed by the gold strips. The Museum's adaptation, the Diadem Flower Stickpin, is electroplated with 24 karat gold and decorated with hand-applied epoxy enamel. signed M.M.A. It measures 2 3/4 inches long. Excellent vintage condition.