Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Opens New Jewelry Gallery Tomorrow

The exhibit will feature 75 unique objects representing a variety of jewels, gems, and treasures that have been valued over the course of four millennia. Here you will be able to see a 24th-century BC Nubian conch shell amulet, Mary Todd Lincoln’s 19th-century diamond and gold suite, and a 20th-century platinum, diamond, ruby, and sapphire flag brooch honoring the sacrifices of the Doughboys in World War I.

The exhibit features various cultures’ take on the concept of “treasure,” showcasing an exquisite array of necklaces, rings, bracelets, pendants, and brooches, as well as mineral specimens. It will also explain the significance of jewelry, which can be functional (pins, clasps, buckles, combs, and barrettes); protective (talismans endowed with healing or magical properties); and ornamental, making the wearer feel beautiful, loved, and remembered. Back in the day, jewelry was also used to establish one’s status and role in society and served as symbols of wealth and power.

Throughout much of history, jewelry’s role as a symbol of one’s elevated status has inspired the wealthy to seek out stones that sparkle, gold that gleams, and designs that reflect the greatest artistry money can buy.To illustrate, jewelry, gems and treasures featured some of the more opulent jewelry collection of the museum, including a necklace of diamonds and after 1856 marriage earrings given by arms dealer Samuel Colt to its Women (after 41.73 carats, acquired for $ 8,000, is now valued at $ 190,000) and Mary Todd Lincoln gold, enamel and diamond brooch with matching earrings, which she acquired about 1864, shortly after the death the beloved son of Lincoln, Willy, in 1867 and sold to pay debts mounting. Also on view is a Kashmir sapphire and diamond brooch (around 1900); a gold and diamond necklace made by August Holmström for Peter Carl Fabergé, the famous Russian jeweler to the czars; and cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post’s lavish platinum brooch from the 1920s, featuring a spectacular 60-carat carved Mughal emerald surrounded by diamonds, which she purchased in anticipation of her presentation at the British court in 1929.

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