Rare Art Noveau Woman and Bat, bronze and green enamel earrings. eran001

Great looking earrings made from art nouveau ornate buttons. The buttons show a lady wearing a large hat behind a flying bat. Very unusual, very good condition. They are about an inch in diameter and now dangle from a gold filled ear wire.

The fascination for oriental motifs spread through the United States and Great Britain during the nineteenth century, bats began appearing frequently in Art Nouveau design and were a popular motif in jewelry created in gold, plique-a-jour enamel, diamonds, rubies and other gems by Rene Lalique and other designers. Lalique appeared to be so fond of bats that he even decorated his showcase at the Univeral Exhibition in Paris with them.