Brooch

Object NameBrooch

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

Made FromNon-lead Glass, Ceramic, Silver

Dateabout 1963

Place MadeUnited States, FL, Deland

Techniquefused glass, forged and fabricated silver

SizeOverall W: 4.4 cm, L: 4.3 cm, Th: 1.7 cm

Accession Number91.4.18

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Davis

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Decades in Glass: The 60's

Glass Jewelry: 25 Centuries of Style

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBrooch. Transparent turquoise, chartreuse, cobalt non-lead scrap glasses, chartreuse glaze, natural terracotta of clay; glass fused on bisqued and glazed ceramic base (two firings), forged and fabricated silver, "plastic steel" used in holes of ceramic base to secure wire to clay. Openwork brooch of continuous length of silver wire (beaten flat in various areas) bent and intertwined to form a three-dimensional curvilinear rectangle framing four glass "stones"; wire passes over large central turquoise lozenge "stone" and frames two short small rounded cobalt and blue-green "stones" projecting on short wire struts from one long side of lozenge and a single small chartreuse "stone" projecting from the opposite side; metal pin attachment adhered to back of central lozenge; inscribed in script on clay backing of small blue/green "stone" next to cobalt blue "stone": "Elsa".
Provenance

Source William E. Davis

Source Robert W. Ebendorf (b. 1938)

Source Mrs. William E. Davis