Ring, brooch, and bracelet set

Object Number: 
2011.31a-c
Date: 
1940s
Medium: 
Silver and red garnets with mixed metals. Brooch also decorated with pink garnets (or possibly other unidentified stone).
Dimensions: 
Overall (a, ring): 1 × 1 × 1 in. (2.5 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm) Overall (b. brooch): 1 3/8 in. × 3 in. × 1 1/4 in. (3.5 ×
Description: 
Silver and garnet jewelry set of cast and soldered cocktail ring, brooch, and cuff bracelet. Ring constructed of silver band embossed with figures applied to flower face made up of nine oval garnet petals inlayed in silver channels, and with applied silver ball and cord details. Diamond-shaped brooch decorated similarly with central flower of nine oval garnets in silver channels framed by garnet fleur-de-lis along either side, and set on cast and cut plate; pin fixture applied to back. Cuff bracelet constructed from two semi-circular bands joined at sides at hinge and clasp; face of bracelet decorated with flower of garnet petals framed in silver channels and arranged at each side, also in the form of five ovular garnets set in silver channels; face has twisted wire and small round garnets in channels affixed around periphery.
Gallery Label: 
(Tillie) Marion Metz Greene (1908-1985) of Flushing, New York received this jewelry set from her husband, Leo A. Greene (1908-1954), during the 1940s. Greene was a New York City housewife who raised her family in Flushing, Queens from the 1930s through the 1960s. According to the donor, Lois Greene Stone (one the couple's daughters), garnets were her mother's birthstone.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Lois Greene Stone
Provenance: 
Originally purchased in New York City, ca. 1940s
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Creative: Tronvig Group