Marjorie Merriweather Post brooch
Oscar Heyman Bros.
(American, founded in 1912)
Marcus & Co.
(American, 1892–1941)
1929
Medium/TechniquePlatinum, diamond, and emerald
DimensionsOverall: 5.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 cm (2 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 7/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund, Marshall H. Gould Fund, Frank B. Bemis Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, William E. Nickerson Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Edwin E. Jack Fund, Frederick Brown Fund, Elizabeth Marie Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, H.E. Bolles Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Ernest Kahn Fund, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, Alice M. Bartlett Fund, Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation, Frank M. and Mary T.B. Ferrin Fund, and Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund
Accession number2008.179
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
ProvenanceMarjorie Merriweather Post (b. 1887- d. 1973), New York; given by Post to her daughter, Eleanor Close Barzin (d. 2006) [see note 1]; 2007, sold by a representative of the family to Friman & Stein, New York; January 2008, sold by Friman & Stein to Hancocks, London; June 2008, sold by Hancocks to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2008)
NOTES:
[1] Mrs. Post gave the brooch to one of her two daughters from her first marriage to Edward Bennett Close; according to a family member, this was her second daughter, Eleanor Close Barzin.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.NOTES:
[1] Mrs. Post gave the brooch to one of her two daughters from her first marriage to Edward Bennett Close; according to a family member, this was her second daughter, Eleanor Close Barzin.
about 1890–1900
