New Orleans Necklace
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Decorative Art, 4th Floor
MEDIUM
Silver, three semi-precious stones: Labradorite (?)
DATES
ca. 1962
DIMENSIONS
8 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 3/4 in. (21.9 x 14.9 x 1.9 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
Impressed on back: "STERLING"; "Art Smith"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2007.61.6
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Charles L. Russell
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
An organic, nearly circular collar, open at nape, with three asymmetrically placed pendants of oval-shaped, semi-precious cabouchon stones set into patinated conforming frames. The collar is formed from a piece of wire folded onto itself at proper right with the two ends forming the rest of the piece. The top segment is bent upward at bottom proper left to suspend a blue stone, and then curves around to form the collar. The bottom segment curves and coils down to support the largest of the three pendants, a yellow stone. The third and smallest pendant, a red stone, is suspended at bottom proper left from a ring that loops around the top and bottom segments of the wire.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Decorative Art, 4th Floor
CAPTION
Art Smith (American, born Cuba, 1917â1982). New Orleans Necklace, ca. 1962. Silver, three semi-precious stones: Labradorite (?), 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 3/4 in. (21.9 x 14.9 x 1.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Charles L. Russell, 2007.61.6. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2007.61.6_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2007.61.6_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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copyright transferred to Brooklyn Museum by Charles L. Russell
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