Underwater Bracelet

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Object Name: 
Bracelet
Title: 
Underwater Bracelet
Accession Number: 
95.6.4
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 6.8 cm, L: 20.2 cm, Th: 1.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1994
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead borosilicate, blue paint, metallic silver, glass, copper, nickel, silver, sterling silver; flameworked and sandblasted glass, back is painted blue, copper electroformed, silver plated, assembled with sterling silver catch. Wide flexible bracelet comprised of thirteen slightly s-curved glass lozenges with small nipple on each end, back are sandblasted in undulating zig-zag pattern and colored blue, then electroformed and silverplated to cover back and nipples with metal leaving an ovoid "window" of glass on top surface; lozenges are placed side by side and connected by chain lengths attached to pair of rings on each nipple; each end of bracelet is finished by narrow silver rods and tubular catch; signature not located.
Category: 
Color: 
Inscription: 
GCI
label
affixed to end
Immersed
Venue(s)
Despard Gallery 1994 through 1994
S.O.F.A.
Venue(s)
Glass Artists' Gallery, Chicago 1994 through 1994