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"Lovebirds Duette"
American
1945
Medium/Technique
Gold-plated sterling silver, glass
Dimensions
Height x width x depth: 6 × 5 x 1.7 cm (2 3/ × 1 15/16 x 11/16 in.) combined total
Height x width x depth: 5.3 × 2.6 x 1.5 cm (2 1/16 × 1 x 9/16 in.) each piece
Height x width x depth: 5.3 × 2.6 x 1.5 cm (2 1/16 × 1 x 9/16 in.) each piece
Credit Line
Gift of Carole Tanenbaum
Accession Number2018.3909
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches
DescriptionThis gold-plated sterling silver Duette features two Pileated Woodpeckers with Lucite cabochon bodies and green rhinestone eyes. The birds' necks and tails are accented with rhinestones and their crests consist of three baguettes. Composed of two individual clips secured together with a metal fastener, this piece can be worn as a single brooch, or taken apart and worn as two separate dress clips.
Marks
Sterling Coro Craft [with a Pegasus inscribed in a rectangular plate on one clip]STERLING / Coro Duette / PAT. No. 1798867 [on mechanism]
STERLING [on each clip]
STERLING [on each clip]
ProvenanceBetween about 1970s and 2018, acquired by Carole Tanenbaum, Toronto, Ontario [see note]; 2018, gift of Carole Tanenbaum to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)
NOTE: This is part of a large collection of costume jewelry given to the MFA in 2018, which had been built over about 40 years.
NOTE: This is part of a large collection of costume jewelry given to the MFA in 2018, which had been built over about 40 years.