14k Nardi style Moor brooch with diamonds and tiger eye stones. The Moor is presented in the jeweled pin as a Spanish or Italian ruler, with the regalia of a King, festooned with an emerald hanging down and a diamond collar and diamonds in the crown.
Circa 1950.
0.75 inch x 1.75 inch.
6.30 dwt.

(Wiki and BlackAtlantaStar.com)
In the 16th century the Moors were a people Of mixed Arab, Spanish, and Amazigh (Berber) origins. The Moors created the Islamic Andalusian civilization and subsequently settled as refugees in the Maghreb (in the region of North Africa) between the 11th and 17th centuries. The intellectual achievements of the Moors in Spain had a lasting effect; education was universal in Moorish Spain, while in Christian Europe, 99 percent of the population was illiterate, and even kings could neither read nor write. At a time when Europe had only two universities, the Moors had seventeen, located in Almeria, Cordova, Granada, Juen, Malaga, Seville, and Toledo. In the 10th and 11th centuries, public libraries in Europe were nonexistent, while Moorish Spain could boast of more than 70, including one in Cordova that housed hundreds of thousands of manuscripts. Universities in Paris and Oxford were established after visits by scholars to Moorish Spain.
The Moors conquered Italy in 827 AD and ruled there for 250 years.

Good condition overall