A gold, enamel, diamond, and opal double peacock necklace, from about 1900, on display at the MFA.
(Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Jewelry curator's a gem of a storyteller
A gold, enamel, diamond, and opal double peacock necklace, from about 1900, on display at the MFA.
(Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
To Yvonne Markowitz, curator of jewelry at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, context is everything. Comment on a striking silver choker around her neck, and you learn it's one of a very limited edition created in the 1970s by Finnish artist/jeweler Björn Weckström as part of his planetary series. The kicker: it became known as the Princess Leia necklace after ... (Full article: 1009 words)
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