Design periods sometimes evolve gradually and signs of change become evident long before the styles actually changed. Influences traveled from some countries slower than from others. Jewellery and Materials from Bohemia/Czechoslovakia continued to popularize just about all eras
CHARACTERISTICS
Elaborate brass work – openwork designs
HISTORICAL INFLUENCES
Mount Kozakov yielded imitation jet, colored glass stones and beads all molded by excellent artisans into beautiful jewellery and designs sought after by the rest of the world.
End of World War I in 1918 – Czechs and Slovaks united
Area was called Czechoslovakia and previously Bohemia
SOME IMPORTANT DESIGNERS/MANUFACTURERS
Bohemia with their fabulous glass stones
Carry over of previous designers with modifications inc. more metalwork
MOTIFS
Mixture of Curvilinear and Rectilinear Lines – Ornamental Treasures, boxes, reticules of brass and glass sautoirs - Ornate stone laden brooches and bracelets – Brass filigree
