Tiffany made a series of jewelry designs featuring the combination of moonstones and small, sparkling Montana sapphires set in platinum. One of the most elaborate to survive, this necklace features moonstones of irregular size and shape interspersed with a filigree design of twisted scrolls—a signature motif of much of Tiffany's jewelry—each enclosing four tiny Montana sapphires. As was sometimes the custom of the day, the piece could be worn as one large elaborate necklace with pendant, as seen here, or it could be separated into discrete items, so that the owner (in this case Museum patron and jewelry connoisseur Susan Dwight Bliss) could wear it as a choker or a bracelet, and the pendant, independently, as a brooch.