Queen Anne's Lace Hair Ornament. Designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany  (American, New York 1848–1933 New York). Silver, copper, opals, demantoid garnets, garnets, and enamel. DIam. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm). Purchase, Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Gift, 2001. 2001.249 © 2000–2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The piece descended in the family of the sellers from their great grandmother Ida E. B. Noyes (Mrs. LaVerne Noyes; d. 1912), a noted philanthropist in Chicago. It descended from Mrs. Noyes to her granddaughter, Elsie H. Page, to her daughters, Martha Dickinson and Helen Anne Kendrick.