This program is over. Hope you didn't miss it! Browse other programs we offer Lunchtime with a Curator: Decorative Arts Design Series France’s Crown Jewels: An American Gilded-Age Treasure Afternoon Course Monday, October 3, 2022 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET Code: 1K0285 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Select your Tickets $20 Member $25 Non-Member Save when you purchase this program as a part of one of these series! 3 Program Series: Lunchtime with a Curator: Decorative Arts Design Series Find series tickets Resize text Empress Eugénie’s Currant Leaf Parure, 1855 Save when you purchase the Lunch with a Curator fall series! Join curator Elizabeth Lay, a regular lecturer on the topics of fashion, textiles, and American furniture, for an image-rich lunchtime lecture series focusing on decorative arts and design topics. Session Information France’s Crown Jewels: An American Gilded-Age Treasure When the French Republic sold the country’s crown jewels at public auction in December 1886, buyers from leading European and American jewelers flocked to the Palais de Tuileries at the Louvre with the hope of acquiring a piece of the magnificent collection. Tiffany & Co. secured one-third of all the lots, eventually selling the jewels to wealthy Americans eager to have a piece of royal heritage themselves. Adopted into the wardrobes of Gilded-Age heiresses, these jewels assumed new meanings. Independent decorative arts curator Amy McHugh explores how symbols of the French monarchy’s inherited power and wealth were reinvented as icons of democratic capitalism and self-made industrial fortunes. Other Sessions in this Series September 19: Southwest Jewelry: Transitions Through Time October 17: The Revivalists: 19th-Century Jewelers of Rome, Naples, London and Paris Patron Information If you register multiple individuals, you will be asked to supply individual names and email addresses so they can receive a Zoom link email. Please note that if there is a change in program schedule or a cancellation, we will notify you via email, and it will be your responsibility to notify other registrants in your group. Unless otherwise noted, registration for online programs typically closes two hours prior to the start time on the date of the program. Once registered, patrons should receive an automatic email confirmation from CustomerService@SmithsonianAssociates.org. Separate Zoom link information will be emailed closer to the date of the program. If you do not receive your Zoom link information 24 hours prior to the start of the program, please email Customer Service for assistance. View Common FAQs about our online programs presented on Zoom.
