Grape Necklace

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Grape Necklace

Designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)

Manufacturer Tiffany & Co. (New York)

Dateabout 1912

DimensionsL: 13 1/2 in. (34.2 cm); W: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

MediumGold and nephrite beads

ClassificationJewelry

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Rita Barbour Kern

Object number

1996.1

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 34, Jewelry Gallery

Label TextAlong with Tiffany, Marcus & Company (active 1892–1962) produced America’s most significant turn-of-the-20th-century jewelry. Designed as a bunch of grapes with dew-dropped leaves, this brooch is distinctive for its undulating lines and naturalistic use of pearls and plique-à-jour enamel (an enamel technique using delicate “veins” of filigree wire).Published ReferencesArtistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, 2008, no. 257, p. 310, 339, repr. p. 312 (col.).

Exhibition HistorySeattle Art Museum; Toledo Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages,Sept. 12, 2005-Jan. 9, 2007.

Cleveland Museum of Art; San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, 2008-09, no. 257, p. 310, 339, repr. p. 312 (col.).

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Tiffany Jewels, May 31-Aug. 23, 2014.