1930s Angelfish Brooch
Beautiful angelfish brooch dating from the 1930s. Crafted in sterling silver, it's finished in colourful guilloché enamel: lapis blue scaled body with a striking red pectoral fin with trailing streamers whose colours gradually shift from blue to green to yellow. It appears to be a queen angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris.
The naturalist Mark Catesby painted a watercolour, The Angel-Fish, around 1722 which now resides in the Royal Collection. He found it one of the strangest-looking fish he’d come across and used gold paint for the edges of its scales. It became plate 31 in the second volume of his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Linnaeus drew on Catesby’s work when naming American species, and he named the queen angelfish in 1758. It’s still widely called one of the most beautiful fish in the ocean.
Era: Art Deco, circa 1930
Size: 2.4cm by 1.5cm
Marks: Stamped STERLING (silver)
Condition: Great antique condition
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[Last updated: September 2026]
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