Victory, 1902

Worn at the winter salons of a Belgian noblewoman, this brooch carries the Art Nouveau taste that swept the courts at the turn of the century. The enamel work is by hand — a technique that all but vanished by 1914. It came to us directly from the family that kept it for four generations. Where it came from, such things are simply 'grandmother's' — and to the rest of us, they are extraordinary.