Pin, for hair; gold-colored metal, glass; long serrated point with decorated top; scalloped diamond shaped punched base with curvilinear filigree attached; five red paste stones mounted with bezel setting; illegible hallmark on point; length 21.5cm
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)