Lot 184. A black opal, demantoid garnet, sapphire and enamel necklace, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co. Estimate: USD 90,000 - USD 120,000. Price realised USD 118,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017

Suspending a drop black opal cabochon pendant, within a textured gold foliate mount, to the black opal cabochon surmount, within a circular-cut demantoid garnet, sapphire and gold bead scroll, enhanced by a circular-cut demantoid garnet floret, the reverse of green, blue and orange enamel foliate design, joined to a three-row gold rope chain, with clasp and enhancers of similar motif, circa 1920, 16 1/2 in., chains of later addition; Signed Tiffany & Co.

Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's New York, Tiffany: Innovation in American Design, 10 December 1998, Lot 419

Formely in the Garden Museum Collection.

Literature: A. Duncan, Louis C. Tiffany: The Garden Museum Collection,England, Antique Collectors' Club Limited, 2004, p. 516
J. Loring, Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany & Co., New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002, p. 66-67. 

Christie's. Magnificent Jewels & the Rockefeller Emerald, 20 June 2017, New York, Rockefeller Center