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PAIR OF REVIVALIST CLAW AND YELLOW GOLD EAR PENDANTS
Each designed as a granulated yellow gold circular plaque suspending a tiger's claw enhanced by granulated yellow gold of openwork design, mounted in 18K yellow gold
Signed by Tiffany & Co.
Designers working under Edward C. Moore (1827-1891), the director of Tiffany & Company's silver department, utilized his collection of Near and Far Eastern art as an inspirational resource to create fashionably exotic jewelry. Tiger's claws, traditionally an Indian talisman against evil, were used in jewelry made primarily in Calcutta, often as a memento of a hunting trip. Indian and Mogul jewelry had become popular following a display of jewels from the subcontinent, including the 186 carat Koh-i-Noor, at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Within a short time, the vogue for exotic jewelry had crossed the Atlantic, and suites of tiger's claw jewelry became very fashionable at the turn of the century.
Each designed as a granulated yellow gold circular plaque suspending a tiger's claw enhanced by granulated yellow gold of openwork design, mounted in 18K yellow gold
Signed by Tiffany & Co.
Designers working under Edward C. Moore (1827-1891), the director of Tiffany & Company's silver department, utilized his collection of Near and Far Eastern art as an inspirational resource to create fashionably exotic jewelry. Tiger's claws, traditionally an Indian talisman against evil, were used in jewelry made primarily in Calcutta, often as a memento of a hunting trip. Indian and Mogul jewelry had become popular following a display of jewels from the subcontinent, including the 186 carat Koh-i-Noor, at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Within a short time, the vogue for exotic jewelry had crossed the Atlantic, and suites of tiger's claw jewelry became very fashionable at the turn of the century.