Although unmarked, this gold, enamel and diamond brooch offered by Bonhams Knightsbridge (27.5/25% buyer’s premium) on April 3 was almost certainly made by Tiffany in New York c.1890.
A very similar brooch designed by George Paulding Farnham (1859-1927) was exhibited at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris alongside Tiffany’s well-known series of enamelled orchid brooches. The Paris Herald wrote “it is simply marvellous, the stamens being only the thinness of a hair, yet having two colours in enamel, while even the smallest part of the flower is reproduced”.