Necklace

Description This necklace is a splendid example of Tiffany & Co.'s jewelry production around the turn of the 20th century, when the company was famous for its lavish use of diamonds. Composed of stylized fleurs-de-lys and rosettes, this necklace recalls the diamond jewelry of the 18th century. There are 265 diamonds set in a gold mounting faced with platinum.

Exhibitions

• Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006-2009.
• Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. 2010.

Provenance Abram Eisenberg [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Helen Eisenberg, 1904, by gift [a wedding present]; Mr. and Mrs. Gerson Eisenberg [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1987, by gift.

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerson Eisenberg, in memory of Abram and Helen Eisenberg, 1987