The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest Becker
vauxhall glass double crescent brooch
An early nineteenth century Vauxhall glass brooch, composed of two crescents facing and interwoven with one another, accented with large-faceted deep red mirrored glass, affixed to a perforated brass backplate, c clasp to the reverse, 1.5 in by 1.0 in, unmarked, circa 1830.
Vauxhall glass, or mirrored glass, notable for its highly reflective appearance and produced in an array of colors including black, red, silver, green, purple, and blue, was produced by the Vauxhall Glassworks from the mid-eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. The Vauxhall Glassworks abutted the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London where jewelry was often sold as souvenirs to visitors. Later pieces may be easily identified as they were stamped on the reverse with English registry marks, earlier pieces lack such marking.