This exquisite necklace, featuring jelly jade, recalls Spratling’s work and shows his influence in the Taxco region.
The Museum’s 3,000-piece jewelry collection features examples of embossing, chasing, repoussé, and engraving.
Highlights
This necklace includes charms collected given by wealthy suitors, the more charms acquired the more valuable her collection became.
Indigenous Alaskan jewelry artist Denise Wallace uses the scrimshaw technique to carve into fossilized ivory and set ink into the grooves.
This body ornament is an iconic representation of wealth.
This ornament was worn by being attached to a woman’s hair or headdress as one component of an elaborate jewelry ensemble.
This particular necklace employs granulation—the addition of tiny decorative metal balls onto the surface to create visual interest.