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Object NameRing

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

Made Fromnon-lead scrap glass

Dateabout 1950-about 1953

Place MadeUnited States

Techniquefused clay and glass, silver

SizeH: 3.2 cm, L: 2.5 cm, W: 2.1 cm

Accession Number92.4.119

Credit LineGift of Elsa Freund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent light aquamarine non-lead scrap glass, greenish-beige glaze, terra cotta colored clay; metallic silver; clay formed by hand, bisque fired, glazed on one side and set with broken colored glass then fired again; hammered silver wire; adhesive used to attach wire to clay. Ring with circular (slightly squared) glass "stone" of crazed turquoise blue on glazed ceramic pad; ends of silver wire mount embedded in ceramic pad, parts of wire hammered flat in some places, wire sweeps around "stone" then spirals to form four circle finger ring (space between each circle); impressed on back of clay (almost undistinguishable and is obscured): "SP".
Provenance

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