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necklace

Object NameNecklace

Artist Elsa (Elsie) Marie Bates Freund (American, 1912-2001)

Made Fromglass, clay, glass enamel

Date1950

Place MadeUnited States

Techniquefused, rolled and fabricated aluminum beads

SizeL(closed): 15.7 cm, L(open): 36.2 cm

Accession Number93.4.75

Credit LineGift of Elsa Marie Bates Freund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTerracotta colored clay with transparent, blue-green, and cobalt enamel/glazes; colorless non-lead glass, clay, aluminum, black thread; glass fragments are placed on bisqued and glazed (unfired) ceramic base, then fused together; rolled and fabricated aluminum beads. Neckpiece with "chain" composed of short tubes of aluminum sheet rolled on a stick and strung on thread in pattern of alternating single and paired tubes, wire hook and eye findings; suspended at center of chain is triangular "stone" pendant formed of a pad of clay covered with colorless glass fragments and colored enamels/glazes to create the surface effect of a central streak of cobalt and scattered white glaze "crystals" on colorless crackled background.
Provenance

Source Elsa (Elsie) Marie Bates Freund (American, 1912-2001)