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Designed by Louis C. Tiffany American
Louis C. Tiffany American
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 743
Tiffany exhibited three Queen Anne's lace ornaments representing various stages of bloom at the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904. This hair ornament-composed of delicate silver wires bearing tiny opals, demantoid garnets, garnets, and enamel florets-shows the flower in full bloom. Leaves of silver covered in translucent green enamel and copper painted green, visible on the under-side of the piece, increase the impression of naturalism. Whereas jewelry typically made at his father's firm, Tiffany and Company, tended to replicate more formal flowers, such as orchids and irises, and utilized primarily precious stones, Tiffany's use of a common wildflower and semi-precious stones aligns this work with avant-garde Parisian jewelers of the Art Nouveau.
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Title: Queen Anne's Lace Hair Ornament
Designer: Designed by Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Maker: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Date: 1904
Culture: American
Medium: Silver, copper, opals, demantoid garnets, garnets, and enamel
Dimensions: DIam. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Gift, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.249
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America Comes of Age: 1876-1900
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Art Nouveau
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
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Nineteenth-Century American Jewelry
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
Chronology
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present
Museum Publications
"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2000–2001": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 59, no. 2 (Fall, 2001)
Jewelry: The Body Transformed
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