1. Verdura
(Manufacturers/Italian Jewelers)

... Victorians; curvaceous Italian putti; and a lush, multi-color, leaf-motif brooch. While his work is often compared to that of Tiffany designer, John Schlumberger, Verdura’s pieces are visually softer and ...

2. Edward C. Moore
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Edward C. Moore was the jewelry design director and head of the silver workshops at Tiffany and Company from 1851 to 1891. Under Moore’s direction, the artists at Tiffany studied jewelry and objects from ...

3. G. Paulding Farnham
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Arguably Tiffany and Company's most eminent nineteenth-century jewelry designer. In 1885, at the tender age of 26, G. Paulding Farnham joined Tiffany’s design department. Studying under Edward Moore ...

4. George Frederick Kunz
(Gemstones/Important Gemologists)

GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ George Frederick Kunz is known as “the greatest American gemologist of all time.” He served as Tiffany and Company’s chief gemologist from 1879 until his death in 1932. Though he ...

5. Tiffany and Company
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

In 1837 Tiffany and Company opened its doors in New York City as Tiffany and Young. Its specialties at the time were fancy goods and stationary. While initially carrying only a small selection of jewelry, ...

6. Marcus and Co.
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... court jewelers of Dresden, won him jobs at Ball, Black, and Co. as well as Tiffany and Company. He was also a partner in the prestigious firm Starr and Marcus before going into business with his son. In ...

7. Louis Comfort Tiffany
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of American jeweler Tiffany and Company. He served as the design director for Tiffany from 1902-1918. LCT began his career as a watercolorist. ...

8. Bulgari
(Manufacturers/Greek Jewelers)

... create its own. In 1976, when Marina left, the family hired former Tiffany designer Donald Claflin to aid in this enterprise. By the 1980’s, success was theirs. “I think your jewellery is the 1980’s,” ...

9. Frederic Boucheron
(Manufacturers/French Jewelers)

... Henri Vever said, Boucheron made pieces that “very few of his colleagues would have dared to make at the time.”The firm thus developed a faithful and growing clientele. Among its clients was Tiffany and ...

10. Black Star and Frost
(Manufacturers/American Jewelers)

... to exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia along with renowned firms like Tiffany and Company. In 1939 the firm was one of five American jewelers invited to exhibit at New York’s World’s ...

11. Art Nouveau Period
(History/Antique Periods)

... art form. Other famous makers from the era are Karl Faberge, George Fouquet, and Louis Tiffany. Of course, their work, along with Lalique's is the rarest of the rare. Most of their antique pieces can ...