Pin, for hair; gold-colored metal, glass, enamel; long serrated point with decorated top; scalloped diamond shaped punched base curvilinear filigree attached; blue enamel floral motif in middle; five pastestones mounted with bezel settings; hallmark; cross in crest, initials A.N.; length 22.5 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Switzerland
Verbatim coll. place:
Switzerland
Culture or time period:
Swiss
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Enamel (fused coating) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hairpins (hair accessories) and Hairpins (pins)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1909 and 1916
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)