Cow's horn, moonstones

H  9.00cm (3.54 in)  |  W  14.00cm (5.51 in)

'A tiara cleverly arranged to suggest barley corns glistening with the morning dew. Carved from cow's horn and set with moonstones'
Maker & Muse Women and the Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 2015, illustrated frontispiece & page 45

Provenance
Original fitted case, the silk lining stamped:‘Liberty & Co, Regent Street, London’

Exhibitions
‘The Liberty Style’ Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum,
12th June – 25th July 1999, illustrated fig. 256.

Literature
Illustrated in our book:
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2021, p. 18 & 124
The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, 1999, Handbook, Published in association with Harpers & Queen, Silver, Jewellery & Objects of Vertu, Tadema Gallery, Stand 21, illustrated p. 239.
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau in Britain, from Mackintosh to Liberty, 2000, Andreas Papadakis, illustrated p. 12
Tiaras, A History of Splendour, Geoffrey C. Munn, 2001; The Tiara as a Work of Art, illustrated p. 344.
Jewellery 1789-1910, The International Era, Volume II, 1862-1910, Shirley Bury, 1991, illustrated page 717, fig. 204.

Collections
Acquired by The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago

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