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

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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.