18KTGP Gold and Sky Blue Enameled Phoenix Brooch

18KTGP Gold and Sky Blue Enameled Phoenix Brooch

Beautiful Piece

THe Phoenix has been used as an allegory for life, death, and rebirth. The phoenix is often depicted as a beautiful bird with a colorful plumage and a long tail feather. The phoenix symbolizes the sun that dies at night only to be reborn again in the morning sky.Enameling is the process of applying a thin coat of finely ground glass to a metal and firing it to a high temperature which fuses the glass to the metal. It originated through civilizations in the Fifth Century B.C. Pieces of sculpture of that period show inlaid gold covered with a type of glaze which was enamel.