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Demi-parure
This is a Demi-parure. It was produced by Tiffany & Co. and the design director was Louis Comfort Tiffany. It is dated 1920s. Its medium is 18k gold, cabochon sapphire, demantoid garnet, faceted sapphires and enamel.
Meta Overbeck supervised the art jewelry department of Tiffany & Co. beginning in 1914. Strong color combinations or orange, blue, and green, typical of design in the 1920s, feature in this necklace and earrings set. A book of Meta Overbeck's drawings survives in the collection of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.
It is credited Neil Lane Collection.
- Bracelet
- platinum, diamonds, sapphires.
- Lent by Tiffany and Company, Archives, A2004.17.
- 62.2016.3
- Drawing, Study for "The Mermaid Window," A.H. Barney Residence, New York, NY
- pastel crayon, brush and wash on wove paper.
- Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- 1955-38-2-a
- Presentation Bowl
- sterling silver.
- Lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gift of Cecily E. Horton, 2014.814.
- 52.2016.4
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Desk Set
- favrile glass, etched bronze.
- Gift of Mrs. Eric Larrabee.
- 1997-11-4/9
Its dimensions are
L (necklace, overall): 22.9 cm (9 in.) L x W (pendant): 7 × 3.8 cm (2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.) L x W (earrings): 5.9 × 1.9 cm (2 5/16 × 3/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Necklace and earrings signed Tiffany & Co.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
