Museum Collections
Luce Center
Jewelry suite (parure)
Object name
Jewelry suite (parure)
Date
1820-1840
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
overall (brooch): 1 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 4 in. ( 2.9 x 11.1 x 10.2 cm )
overall (each bracelet): 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (
Description
Silver filegree necklace, earrings, bracelets and brooch set; necklace made of hollow spheres of floral filegree bobbles, with hook and eye fastener; wire hook earrings have hollow floral filegree bobble at lobe, suspending vertical floral garland with half-sphere bobble with coiled wire fringe; bracelets have bands of vertical filegree floral garlands chain linked at outer edges, with clasp fasteners; brooch have horizontal chevron of vertically oriented filegree floral garlands with double hineged pins and hooks on reverse, with 2 butterfly swags suspending half-sphere bobbles with coiled wire fringe.
Credit Line
Gift of Goodhue Livingston, 1951
Object Number
INV.12691.36a-f
Gallery Label
This necklace and earrings set came from a jewelry box from Adelaide L. Livingston (1852-1909).
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





