DATE: Art Deco, c.1930

**RESERVED for BP** Striking Art Deco brooch featuring a pair of palm trees hanging over the ocean with mountains in the background. The colour palette has a distinct Miami Vice flavour, with hand-painted blues and pinks over an iridescent blue morpho (real) butterfly wing background. Made and signed by Thomas L Mott, who presented his first butterfly wing brooches at the 1924 British Exposition, before acquiring two other producers of the style, Owen Brothers and Henry W King & Son, to become the leading creator of butterfly jewellery throughout the 1920s and '30s. 

MEASUREMENTS 

3.0cm corner to corner

2.3cm edge to edge

WEIGHT 

5.8g

MARKS 

Stamped STERLING ENGLAND

TLM maker's mark

CONDITION 

Very good