The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Comet of the Millennium Brooch

Comet of the Millennium Brooch

2000
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

James Mazurkewicz was the chief designer and goldsmith at the Cleveland jewelry firm Potter and Mellen.

Description

To mark the year 2000, James Mazurkewicz, the sculptor of this brooch created a work featuring a dark Tahitian pearl comet rocketing toward Earth in a blaze of gold and diamonds representing its fiery descent through orbit.
  • commissioned by Joseph McCullough in 2000
    inherited by Marjorie McCullough and Warren McCullough in 2013
  • Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA (6/27/2105 - 1/7/2016): "Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age"
    Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (June 27, 2015-January 7, 2016).
  • {{cite web|title=Comet of the Millennium Brooch|url=false|author=James Mazurkewicz, Potter and Mellen, Inc.|year=2000|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2013.73