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  Elizabeth Bonte, French Art Nouveau “Hornet” brooch, carved horn c. 1900

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  Paul Haustein Germany Rare Jugendstil enamel and silver inkwell c.1900

  PAUL HAUSTEIN  (1880-1944)  Germany
  HERMANN BEHRND (b. 1849) SILBERWARENFABRIK (silver) Dresden, Germany
  JAKAB RAPOPORT (enamelist) Budapest, Hungary

  Inkwell  c. 1900

  Multicolored burgundy, purple, blue and green enamel with silver mounts, glass insert

  Marks: Moon, crown, 800, HB (Hermann Behrnd mark)

  Same model with variant mount illustrated: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung, n.d. (circa 1903-05), p. 23

  For related works and more information see: Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jugendstil, ed. Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988) pp. 67-69; Jugendstil in Dresden, Aufbruch in die Moderne, Gisela Haase et al., exh. cat. (Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Wolfratshausen: Edition Minerva, 1999).

  Dia: 7 1/4″ x H: 4 1/2″

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  British “Tree Frog” brooch, silver set with green and clear paste jewels, red jewel eyes, marks c. 1895

  Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species” overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of specie.  By the 1870s both the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact and awakening the public to the diversity of life. The frog emerging from Darwin’s Pond was a symbol of the times and a favorite theme for jewelry of the era.

  
  

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  Fons Reggers (attr.) / Amsterdam School “Expressionistic” silver and red coral brooch, marks, c. 1923-34