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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: 3.4 cm, L: 3 cm, W: 2.4 cm

Accession Number92.4.120

Credit LineGift of Elsa Freund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionTransparent yellow-green non-lead scrap glass, yellow-green 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 yellow-green glass on thickly glazed ceramic pad; ends of silver wire mount embedded in short ends of ceramic pad, parts of wire hammered flat in some places, wire sweeps across "stone" in a large loop then spirals swirls around to form three circle finger ring (space between each circle); impressed on back of clay: "S (then undistinguishable and obscured)".
Provenance

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