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Description: | MANU unknown This five-petalled flower-shaped brooch is encrusted with facetted paste gems, with a simple pin and hook clasp.The gems in this piece are almost certainly paste, they are of varying cuts - freeform trap cut, round briilaint cut and trilion cut. This is part of the collection of jewellery associated with the estate of James McNeill Whistler. The exact ownership of this piece has not yet been established, but it may have been owned by Whistler's wife Beatrix Whistler or a member of her or the Whistler family.
Birnie Philip Bequest 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | JEWELLERY : PASTE : CONSTUMEJEWELLERY : BROOCH : FLOWER : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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