The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 3, 2024
Necklace
c. 1775–95
Part 1: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.); Part 2: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
Did You Know?
This type of necklace, with its single large pendant, is known as a lavalier and was popular among aristocratic women during the 1700s. Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, was known to have several necklaces of this type.Description
Throughout the 1700s, the growing trade for personal luxury objects transformed the material culture surrounding marriage and courtship. Gifts such as perfume, sheet music, books, textiles, portrait miniatures, and jewelry often demonstrated the status of the gift giver and their investment in the relationship. While intended to be seen and admired, this glittering and ostentatious necklace disguised a system based on the labor and suffering of enslaved or indentured people, whether in gold and stone mines or the shop where it was made.- -1964Mrs. Severance A. Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1964-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).Wow Factor: 150 Years of Collecting Bold Clothes. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 28, 2017-April 22, 2018).Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (4/28/2017 – 4/22/2018): "Wow Factor: 150 Years of Collecting Bold Clothes"Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.35