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Pages in category "Jewelry in the Smithsonian Institution" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 1995 one of his teapots was purchased by the Oakland Museum Of California, https://museumca.org, (object A95.15) for their permanent collection. In 1996, another of his teapots [1] was made part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. In 2008 Smith began a project to print his Haiku poetry.
The Hope Diamond, which Switzer helped to acquire for the Smithsonian from Harry Winston in 1958. George Shirley Switzer (June 11, 1915 – March 23, 2008) was an American mineralogist who is credited with starting the Smithsonian Institution's famed National Gem and Mineral Collection by acquiring the Hope Diamond for the museum in 1958.
The 2009 Black Label Masterpiece I, Royal Butterfly Brooch, was donated to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History's gem collection. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The Royal Butterfly is composed of 2,328 gems, totaling 77 carats . [ 30 ]
Nineteen museums and galleries, as well as the National Zoological Park, comprise the Smithsonian museums. [62] Eleven are on the National Mall, the park that runs between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol. Other museums are located elsewhere in Washington, D.C., with two more in New York City and one in Chantilly, Virginia.
The Napoleon Diamond Necklace on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The Napoleon Diamond Necklace is a diamond necklace commissioned by Napoleon I of France c. 1811–1812 from the Parisian jeweler Marie-Étienne Nitot. It is now in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
By age 26, Ross had some of her jewelry designs included in the permanent collections of 10 museums, including the Smithsonian, [27] the Victoria and Albert Museum [28] in London, the Museum of Arts and Design, [29] the Schmuckmuseum, in Pforzheim, Germany, [30] the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and the Montreal Visual ...
The earrings have been on display in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History for several decades. They were purchased from Eleanor Post Hutton in 1964, alongside their original settings. Hutton had inherited them from her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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