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Cow's horn, moonstones

H  9.00cm (3.54 in)  |  W  14.00cm (5.51 in)

Origin	British, c. 1900
Marks	Original fitted case
Case	Original Fitted Case

'A tiara cleverly arranged to suggest barley corns glistening with the morning dew. Carved from cow's horn and set with moonstones'
Maker & Muse Women and the Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry, The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 2015, illustrated frontispiece & page 45

Provenance
Original fitted case, the silk lining stamped:‘Liberty & Co, Regent Street, London’

Exhibitions
‘The Liberty Style’ Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum,
12th June – 25th July 1999, illustrated fig. 256.

Literature
Illustrated in our book:
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2021, p. 18 & 124
The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, 1999, Handbook, Published in association with Harpers & Queen, Silver, Jewellery & Objects of Vertu, Tadema Gallery, Stand 21, illustrated p. 239.
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau in Britain, from Mackintosh to Liberty, 2000, Andreas Papadakis, illustrated p. 12
Tiaras, A History of Splendour, Geoffrey C. Munn, 2001; The Tiara as a Work of Art, illustrated p. 344.
Jewellery 1789-1910, The International Era, Volume II, 1862-1910, Shirley Bury, 1991, illustrated page 717, fig. 204.

Collections
Acquired by The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago

Ref No   2852

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