The Metropolitan Museum of Art - "Moth" Pendant and Box

"Moth" Pendant and Box

Date:: ca. 1900
Medium:: Pendant: Gold, champlevé enamel, citrines, carved horn; Box: cardboard, silk
Dimensions:: H. 3, W. 3-5/8 inches (7.6 x 9.2 cm)
Classification:: Jewelry
Credit Line:: Purchase, Dorothy Merksamer Bequest, in honor of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2000
Accession Number:: 2000.176.1,2

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: Pendant: L. Gaillard (carved in horn) Box: L. Gaillard (tooled in gold)
Provenance

Historical Design Inc., New York
Exhibition History

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 19, 2008 - January 18, 2009; San Francisco, California: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, February 7 - May 31, 2009. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, cat. no. 107, pg. 114.
References

Pariser Schmuck, Vom Zweiten Kaiserreich zur Belle Epoque, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1989, pp. 262-272

Duncan, Alastair. The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery. Vol. 1, The Antique Collectors' Club: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994, pp. 274-284.
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What
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