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A vertically placed platinum and diamond brooch in a stable upper design with lower hanging elements. The upper brooch consists of a diamond encrusted flower arrangement symmetrically placed on both sides of a vertical rounded oval encrusted with small round diamonds and a square diamond facing upward at the top, all surrounding a large round diamond with three leaves made from marquise cut diamonds atop. The bouquets and oval meet at the middle where a pattern of three baguettes placed vertically are streaming down from underneath the large round diamond in the center traveling through to the middle connected to a horizontally placed rectangle embellished with small baguettes, a square and a semicircle diamond at each end. A single horizontally placed baguette connects to the underside of the above followed by a semicircle diamond where a link attaches the stable aspect of the brooch with the hanging design. A vertically placed baguette with the arc segment from a diamond encrusted semicircle attaches to the setting where two horizontally placed baguettes are mounted, side by side. A succession of marquise diamonds horizontally placed are connected starting with three, to two and finally one where the brooch ends. This brooch could easily fit into the palm of your hand. The photograph captures the brooch in dramatic light where the brightest is reflected on the brooch then dissipates gradually into darkness against a gray ground with a dark cast shadow showing that the light was shining from above front.

Brooch, ca. 1925
diamonds, platinum.
Neil Lane Collection.
59.2016.16

This object was made by Oscar Heyman & Bros..

Drawing, View of Masquerade Ball

Drawing, View of Masquerade Ball
pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor on laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-39

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Print, Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V à Paris (Perspective View of the Bedroom of Cit. V in Paris), plate 13, in Recueil de décorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)

Print, Vue perspective de la Chambre à coucher du Cit. V à Paris...
etching, engraving on cream laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-377-14

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet Portrait Miniature On Bracelet

Portrait miniature set on a bracelet Portrait Miniature On Bracelet
watercolor on ivory, chased gold, silk velvet, cut glass.
1914-39-4

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.