Bracelet

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Object Name: 
Bracelet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands
Accession Number: 
92.3.8
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 12 cm, Th: 1.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1989-1990
Primary Description: 
Multi-colored transparent non-lead glass (blue, green, amethyst, amber, greenish-gray); matte blue-gray and black aluminum; facet cut and polished glass, metal. Circular bracelet consisting of wide flattened aluminum band anodized blue-gray; center exterior of band has shallow channel which holds (at right angle fastened by pins) flat non-identical "zig-zag" sections of blackened metal regularly spaced; held between notches each black sections are edges of prism-cut faceted square or rectangular glass "gems" in various colors, glass is raised above metal band and held in place by tension between black metal sections; short "clasp" of gray tubular metal between two of black metal.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Zwinkels, Marijke C., Source
1992-01-20
Category: 
Jewelry
Color: 
Multi-colored transparent
Technique: 
facet cut and polished glass, metal

Exhibitions (2)

Schmuck Europa
V.E.S.
Venue(s)
Stedelijk Museum 1990 through 1990
 

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1992 (1993) p. 11; BIB# AI96377