Like other daring Art Deco creations, this bold necklace shows its designer breaking rules of symmetry that were centuries old: he placed a large rectangular aquamarine off-center on an engraved platinum disk. Unconventionally, the necklace also combines multiple metals. Jean Fouquet designed innovative jewelry beginning about 1925. Fouquet was the equally admired son of the celebrated Parisian jeweler Georges Fouquet (1862–1957), whose Art Nouveau jewelry also appears in this exhibition.