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Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch
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Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch

mid-19th century

Medium

Onyx and gold, tortoiseshell

Dimensions

Diadem, visible cameo: 1 13/16 x 3 1/16 in. (4.7 x 7.8 cm); 46.8 x 78 mm; Diadem, overall with setting: 2 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.; Brooch, visible cameo: 1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in. (4.3 x 3.3 cm); 42.6 x 33.4 mm; Brooch, overall with setting: 2 1/16 x 1 11/16 in.; Necklace, overall length: 17 1/2 in. (43.8 cm) Necklace, visible cameo at clasp: 20.2 x 14.6 mm; visible cameo at PL: 26.7 x 20.9 mm; visible cameo at center: 29 x 23.1 mm; visible cameo at PR: 27.2 x 20.7 mm

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Milton Weil Collection, 1940

Classification

Lapidary Work-Gems

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Italian, Rome

Rights

Public Domain

About John Gibson

1790–1866United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandWales

Outstanding Neoclassical sculptor who experimented with the ancient practice of coloring statues, e.g. his 'Tinted Venus' (1851). Flaxman encourgaged him to go to Rome, where he spent most of his life. He left his fortune to the National Gallery, London. British sculptor, active Rome. Comment on works: sculptor