Collection Information
Size: 7 Items
Summary: Five slides of jewelry designed and made by Miye Matsukata; a letter from Matsukata to Ostrum; and a clipping about her work.
Ostrum, Sarepta Pierpont, 1922-
Collector
Size: 7 Items
Summary: Five slides of jewelry designed and made by Miye Matsukata; a letter from Matsukata to Ostrum; and a clipping about her work.
Ostrum is a collector; Califon, New Jersey. Miye Matsukata (1922-1981) was a Japanese American jewelry designer and metalsmith based in Boston, Massachusetts. She worked at her jewelry firm Janiye in Boston from 1950 to her death.
Donated 1984 by Sarepta Pierpont Ostrum.
English .
The letter and the clipping are photocopies.
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Sarepta Pierpont Ostrum papers relating to Miye Matsukata jewelry, 1979-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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