Chicago Art Institute Hails Jewelry Collection

The Art Institute of Chicago Friday unveiled what it said was one of the largest jewelry collections ever given to a U.S. museum, 81 pieces from 15th- through 17th-Century Europe.

The objects, for which a special gallery will be built, range from an emerald-and-diamond-studded gold Spanish crown that once adorned a religious statue to a carved-in-crystal image of Queen Anna Maria of Austria fashioned into a pendant in Paris around 1570.