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Original box for Starfish brooch

(French, founded in 1890)
(American (born in France), 1903 – 1996)
1937
DimensionsOverall: 16.5 × 16.5 × 5.1 cm (6 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Monica S. Sadler, Otis Norcross Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, the Curators Circle: Fashion Council, Nancy Adams and Scott Schoen, Anonymous Donor, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Theresa Baybutt, Emi M. and William G. Winterer, and Deborah Glasser
Accession number2019.654.2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1937, purchased by Claudette Colbert (b. 1903 – d. 1996), Los Angeles. September 24, 2008, anonymous sale, Christie’s, Paris, lot 238. Sold by Stephen Russell Jewelry, New York, to Nancy Marks, New York; by about 2018, sold by Nancy Marks to Siegelson, New York; 2019, sold by Siegelson to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
Starfish brooch
Juliette Moutard
1937
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mid-19th century
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around 1870
Comb
about 1800
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mid-19th century
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around 1900