A stunning, Art Deco pin with an ornametal, fan-shaped jabot motif on both ends of a platinum silver pin, displayed vertically. The smaller decorative element on the top is of a soft triangular shape filled with diamonds, punctuated with a horizontal onyx band. Below the triangle is a fan of kernel-shaped white quartz centered around a similarly shaped setting of two round-cut diamonds, surrounding a rectangular, emerald cut diamond. The larger, lower decorative element features an emerald cut diamond atop a column of parallel diamonds which widens to surround a pear-cut diamond near the bottom. Echoing the smaller element, a curved, horizontal onyx collar encircles the line of diamonds, from which elongated white quartz drapes fan downward, four on each side of the column. The piece is evocative of a small hat atop a graceful figure, wearing a sparkling jabot collar in a classic, yet brilliant, black and white.

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Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
1925	Work on this object began.
1930	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #907214251

This is a Jabot Pin. It was produced by Tiffany & Co..

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Tiffany and Co. as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1925–30. Its medium is diamonds, platinum, rock crystal (quartz), chalcedony (onyx).

Although the jabot was usually a ruffle or cravat, the jabot pin was normally worn on a cloche hat or lapel. The fan shape creates exoticism by suggesting a turban ornament. Both the form and materials show Tiffany working in a very French taste.

It is credited Lent by Tiffany and Company, Archives, A1999.28.