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Object NameRing

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

Made FromNon-lead scrap glass

Dateabout 1950-about 1953

Techniquefused clay and glass, silver

SizeH: 3.5 cm, L: 3.4 cm, W: 2.6 cm

Accession Number92.4.117

Credit LineGift of Elsa Freund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

United States

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead scrap glass, black 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 large ovoid glass "stone" of crazed colorless on black glazed ceramic pad; ends of silver wire mount embedded in ceramic pad, parts of wire hammered flat in some places, wire sweeps over stone with a large loop then spirals to form five circle finger ring (space between each circle); impressed on back of clay: "(appears to say but is partially obscured) elsa".
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