Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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A pair of dress clips/brooch designed with repeated geometric symmetrical forms encrusted with diamonds, sapphires, and pearls set in platinum resembling the form of a shield. A large oval cabochon sapphire graces the center wrapped in a halo of diamonds. Faceted square-cut sapphires are centered and set in a row from the top of the dress clip to the cabochon surrounded by diamonds hugging the row on both sides. A symmetrical step design forms into a square at both sides enveloping a small square-cut sapphire. Several white round pearls with slight variation in color are evenly spaced and adorn the angled bottom edge in a stable setting. The dress clips enhance the neckline of a garment and would be placed at an angle on each side. The photograph captures the objects in a direct frontal view where the left clip is higher than the right one against a gray ground with reflected gradient light.

Pair Of Dress Clips/Brooch, 1920s
diamonds, pearls, sapphires, platinum.
Neil Lane Collection.
59.2016.18a,b

This object was made by Charlton & Company.

Brooch
platinum, diamonds, cultured pearl, onyx, rock crystal.
Lent by Cartier Collection, Inv. CL 235 A24.
86.2016.9

This object was made by Cartier.

A stunning, Art Deco pin with an ornametal, fan-shaped jabot motif on both ends of a platinum silver pin, displayed vertically. The smaller decorative element on the top is of a soft triangular shape filled with diamonds, punctuated with a horizontal onyx band. Below the triangle is a fan of kernel-shaped white quartz centered around a similarly shaped setting of two round-cut diamonds, surrounding a rectangular, emerald cut diamond. The larger, lower decorative element features an emerald cut diamond atop a column of parallel diamonds which widens to surround a pear-cut diamond near the bottom. Echoing the smaller element, a curved, horizontal onyx collar encircles the line of diamonds, from which elongated white quartz drapes fan downward, four on each side of the column. The piece is evocative of a small hat atop a graceful figure, wearing a sparkling jabot collar in a classic, yet brilliant, black and white.

Jabot Pin, 1925–30
diamonds, platinum, rock crystal (quartz), chalcedony (onyx).
Lent by Tiffany and Company, Archives, A1999.28.
62.2016.4

This object was made by Tiffany and Co..

Drawing, Design for a bracket or sconce lighting fixture for the Fisher (Mayan) Theater, Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan

Drawing, Design for a bracket or sconce lighting fixture for the Fisher...
gouache on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library.
43.2016.3

Diamond and platinum brooch. Shape is bowtie-like, with two arrows facing opposite directions. The two 'arrows' are connected by two small, rectangularly horiztonal diamond clasps. At the non-pointed side of each arrow, both top and bottom curve inward, almost like an Ionic column.

Cape Clips/ Brooch, ca. 1925
platinum, diamonds.
Private Collection.
41.2016.9