Necklace by Louis Comfort Tiffany
Art jewellery from Tiffany & Co. with opals and enamel, inspired by American wild flowers.
Louis Comfort Tiffany showed his first jewellery at the St Louis World’s Fair in 1904. He wanted to make jewellery an art, not merely capital. Examples are in the Metropolitan Museum and the Morse Museum.
Materials: Gold, opals, enamel, garnets
Manufacture: Made in Tiffany’s art jewellery department, with stones chosen for colour rather than value.
The colour of the stones – the fire of opals and the green of enamel – rather than the glitter of diamonds.
Forms based on grapes, berries and leaves.