Necklace
Designed by Louis C. Tiffany American
Tiffany & Co.
A compendium of semiprecious stones-opals, garnets, tourmalines, carnelians, and amber-some left in their naturally irregular shapes, are interspersed with hammered gold beads on a hand-wrought chain. A large alexandrite, weighing more than forty carats, forms a single pendant. The unusual stone, made even more exceptional by its size, changes color with the light, a property that must have appealed to Tiffany. It appears as a deep amber in transmitted or artificial light and as a soft olive green in reflected light.
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