1949 Crown Trifari Moghul “Tree” Brooch
India · Glass, Sapphire
$2,449.95
- Maker
- Trifari
- Origin
- India
- Era
- Alfred Philippe · 1949
- Materials
- Glass, Sapphire
- Provenance
- Fluted molded glass in sapphire and emerald, drawn from Trifari’s 1949 Schéhérazade Moghul series — the year the house looked to India and produced its most romantic work. The cabochons carry the soft glow only poured glass achieves.
On this piece
A tree of jewels, straight out of the Mughal imagination. Part of Crown Trifari’s revered 1949 Schéhérazade India collection, this brooch takes the form of a stylized flowering tree, its branches heavy with fluted molded glass cabochons in sapphire blue and emerald green, every surface catching crystal-rhinestone light against gold plate. The Mughal courts prized gardens above almost everything — paradise itself was imagined as one — and Trifari’s designers understood that a tree in bloom was the richest image they could render. It earns a place in the prestigious Brunialti reference, American Costume Jewelry, Volume 2, the standard authority that separates the important pieces from the merely old. Molded, fluted glass like this doesn’t just sparkle; it holds color the way a carved gemstone does. A brooch that turns the oldest garden in art into something you can pin to a coat.