Vintage African Mother & Baby Child Copper Designer Brooch by Joe Calafato – South Africa

 

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Simply beautiful copper brooch by world-renowned South African jewelry artist, Joe Calafato. Calafato is known for his designs that have an endearing quality of compositions of African life. The circular brooch is a masterfully designed depiction of an African mother wearing a traditional headdress, beads, and adornments, carrying her sleeping, infant child on her back. This brooch has an endearing and enduring sentiment for one with a discerning eye for African beauty and art.

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This beautiful brooch has a rich, natural, undisturbed patina and is hallmarked, not with one of Calafato’s more well-known maker’s marks, but is instead hallmarked with his signature all-caps, arial font: COPPER. Calafato’s timeless, African iconography and aesthetic appreciation of African expressions of nurturance, protection, and culturally traditional, African female beauty is evident in this fantastic brooch!

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