Scottish Silver and Boar's Tusk Citrine Brooch
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An impressive early 1900s Scottish silver and boar's tusk brooch, two large silver capped tusks supporting a scrolling silver centrepiece set with a large oval facet cut citrine, silver thistles set with citrines and amethysts, the tusks also decorated with silver thistles, marked STG SILV and maker's name. 10 cm x 11 cm.
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- Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- brooches, design or type - zoomorphic 110
- brooches, set with
- brooches, silver - silver items 2,539
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