Gold necklace with a large pendant which features a large, oval, cabochon-cut sapphire. The blue gemstone is surrounded by sparkling green demantoid garnets and floral enamel decorative elements in greens and oranges. The sapphire is cut in a dome shape without any facets, featuring horizontal striations and depth of color. Surrounding the sapphire are basket-like decorative elements filled with colorful flowers in shades of red and orange. Underneath the oval stone are symmetrical swirls and a U shaped garnet arch anchored by two smaller faceted sapphires on each side of a floral burst of color. The pendant is attached to the necklace with a bale decorated with a graduated line of bright green demantoid garnets. The gold chain itself is of a stylized floral rope style.

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	We acquired this object.
1920	Work on this object began.
1929	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Demi-parure, 1920s

This is a Demi-parure. It was produced by Tiffany & Co. and the design director was Louis Comfort Tiffany. It is dated 1920s. Its medium is 18k gold, cabochon sapphire, demantoid garnet, faceted sapphires and enamel.

Meta Overbeck supervised the art jewelry department of Tiffany & Co. beginning in 1914. Strong color combinations or orange, blue, and green, typical of design in the 1920s, feature in this necklace and earrings set. A book of Meta Overbeck's drawings survives in the collection of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.

It is credited Neil Lane Collection.