Art Deco Platinum and Diamond Dress Set

Description:

Art Deco Platinum and Diamond Dress Set, a pair of cuff links, four vest buttons, and three shirt studs, 27.8 dwt.

Provenance: Bequest from Joseph H. Hirshhorn, (1899-1981) financier, philanthropist and benefactor of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. to his grandson.
The gift is documented in Little Man in a Big Hurry, The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector, Gene Hirshhorn LePere, Vantage Press, New York, p. 257.

Estimate $1,500-2,000


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