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1890s
Length: 3.5 x 1.5 cm (1 3/8 x 9/16 in.)
Gold, garnet
Classification: Jewelry / Adornment
Culture: Czech Republic
Accession number: 2012.203.1-2
Description: Dangly earrings. Flower shaped post attached to screw-back closure. Butterfly hangs off of bottom of flower. Butterfly and flower made up of many round and oblong garnets. Marks: "AVF" on reverse (Anna F. Fitzgerald, relative of Honey Fritz)
Provenance/Ownership History: Anna Fitzgerald; by descent to Breshnaham; by descent to Jeffries; 2011, Robert Sprowl by inheritence from his mother Margo Jeffries Sprowl; 2012, gift of Sprowl to the MFA. (Accession date: March 28, 2012)
Gift of Robert Sprowl in memory of Margo Jeffries Sprowl