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31 ORNAMENT 35.5.2012 this will encourage other museums, like the Met, to bring their jewelry out of storage. MARSH-BIRD BROOCH, designed by Charles Robert Ashbee, of gold, silver, enamel, moonstone, topaz, and freshwater pearl; 9 x 10.5 x 1.5 centimeters, Arts and Crafts, 1901–02. Museum purchase with funds donated by Susan B. Kaplan, Marshall H. Gould Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Linda Fenton, Dorothy Lee Jones Fund, Penny Vinik, and Adrienne Iselin Gilbert Memorial Fund. In addition to her role within the museum, Markowitz is co-founder and co-director of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts (ASJRA), along with Elyse Zorn Karlin, a longtime collaborator and independent jewelry historian. Markowitz is contributing editor of Adornment, ASJRA's quarterly magazine about jewelry. For over a decade, she was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Jewelry Historians. She is a member of the Society of Jewelry Historians, in London; her articles have appeared in books, exhibition catalogs, scholarly journals including Apollo, Minerva, Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, and magazines about jewelry––Antiques, Metalsmith and Ornament among them. EARRING of gold with inlays of turquoise, carnelian, and lapis lazuli; 5.1 centimeters diameter, Near Eastern, Iranian, Persian, Achaemenid, 525– 330 B.C. Edward J. and Mary S. Holmes Fund. MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST BROOCH of platinum, diamond, and emerald; late 1920s. Possibly by Oscar Heyman & Bros. for Marcus & Co. William Francis Warden Fund, Marshall H. Gould Fund, Frank B. Bemis Fund, Mary S. and Edward Jackson Holmes Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, William E. Nickerson Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Edwin E. Jack Fund, Frederick Brown Fund, Elizabeth Marie Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, H.E. Bolles Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, Ernest Kahn Fund, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, Alice M. Bartlett Fund, Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation, Frank M. and Mary T.B. Ferrin Fund, and Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund. Markowitz has two grown children, and four grandchildren. She lives in a mid-eighteenth-century farmhouse in Framingham, with her husband, Saul, and two cats. Markowitz met her husband, a dermatologist, when she was a student at Mercy Academy, a small, private girl's Catholic school, in New York. "We had to do eight hours of the corporal works of mercy every week," she says. "I was a volunteer in a hospital. I was a senior in high school and he was a first year medical student. I was sixteen, but I told him I was eighteen, and a year later we were married." She started college at Pratt Institute, to study studio arts. But as her husband's education and early career moved them to Utah, Texas, Maryland, and Poughkeepsie, New York, she completed a