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Airplane and parachute brooch
American
1940
Medium/Technique
Metal, enamel, glass
Dimensions
Length: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.) total combined
Height x width: 4.5 × 4.4 cm (1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.) plane
Length: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.) chain
Length x width at widest point: 4.2 × 2.5 cm (1 5/8 × 1 in.) hot air balloon
Height x width: 4.5 × 4.4 cm (1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.) plane
Length: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.) chain
Length x width at widest point: 4.2 × 2.5 cm (1 5/8 × 1 in.) hot air balloon
Credit Line
Gift of Carole Tanenbaum
Accession Number2018.4029
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ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches
DescriptionThis chatelaine brooch features a paratrooper with a red, white and blue enamel parachute suspended from a rhinestone-encrusted biplane with rotating propellers. The biplane and paratrooper consist of two separate brooches connected by a silver cable chain.
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Coro
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.