{"product_id":"art-nouveau-cloche-necklace-the-heron-collection-silver-or-gold","title":"Art Nouveau Cloche Necklace-The Heron Collection  — Silver or Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Heron Collection: Art Nouveau Nature in Glass and Silver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Heron Collection draws inspiration from a late nineteenth-century decorative glass vessel set within an ornate silver-plated holder produced by James W. Tufts of Boston. Tufts — best known today as the founder of Pinehurst, North Carolina — produced elaborate silver-plated wares that were sometimes paired with decorative glass. The ponds, wetlands, and waterways of North Carolina provide a fitting echo of the heron depicted on this vessel, giving the object an unexpected connection to the landscape with which Tufts’s legacy became intertwined. The original object is now preserved in the Mayflower Descendants Museum, founded by American Tapestry founder and creative director Cherie Behrens. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSwipe to see the original nineteenth-century heron vessel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeet the New American Art Museum Bringing History into Public View Through Art and Artifacts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mayflower Descendants Museum is an American art museum whose holdings bring together a wide range of artists and stories—from talented and emerging artists, some of whom may not yet have been represented in museum collections, to artists whose work was overlooked or little known during their lifetimes, to artists represented in some of the world’s most significant institutional and royal collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the latter category, artists represented in the Museum’s collection can also be found in institutions including the Louvre in Paris; the British Royal Collection; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Picture Gallery in Stratford-upon-Avon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Smithsonian; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Museum’s holdings also include works that have never before been on public view, created by both American and international artists whose art, objects, and stories intersect with the broader American story connected to Mayflower descendants—a diverse global population estimated to number more than 35 million.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames W. Tufts — From Boston to Pinehurst\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames Walker Tufts (1835–1902) was a successful Boston inventor and manufacturer known for both silver-plated decorative wares and soda-fountain equipment. In the 1890s, Tufts turned his attention south and founded Pinehurst, North Carolina, developing it as a health and recreation resort amid the longleaf pines of the Sandhills region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAgainst that history, the heron painted on this vessel takes on unexpected resonance — a waterside bird appearing on an object produced by the company of a man whose legacy would become permanently tied to the North Carolina landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlass, Silver, and Two Makers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe silver-plated mount bears the James W. Tufts maker’s mark and pattern number, securely identifying the metalwork with his Boston company. The glass itself, however, is unsigned.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat distinction matters. Surviving Tufts objects show that the company sometimes paired its silver-plated mounts with glass produced by other manufacturers. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History preserves a Tufts-mounted dish with a separately manufactured Sandwich glass bowl, as well as a circa-1885 Tufts framework designed to hold a separate glass vessel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor that reason, the silver-plated mount is identified as James W. Tufts manufacture while the maker of the heron glass remains unidentified.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames W. Tufts in Museum Collections\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eObjects and archival material connected with James W. Tufts are preserved in major American collections, including the \u003c\/span\u003eSmithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Heron Reimagined\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican Tapestry brings the Museum’s painted heron forward into contemporary design, drawing from its reeds, water, botanical forms, silver ornament, and Art Nouveau character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe result connects a nineteenth-century Boston manufacturer, an unidentified glass artist, the natural world, and the North Carolina town that became James W. 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