necklace
Object NameNecklace
Artist
James Minson
(b. 1962)
Studio
Tama Art University
Made FromLead glass, strlng silver
Date1988
Place MadeJapan
Techniqueblown and iridized bubbles cut with diamond wheels
SizeL: 21.5 cm, W: 22.5 cm
Accession Number92.4.148
Credit LineGift of James Minson
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless with overlays of transparent pale yellow, blue, white, green, amethyst-all lightly iridized lead glasses; blown and iridized bubbles cut with diamond wheels to produce spoon shapes; edges are ground and polished; glass is bonded (adhesive unknown) to silver fittings spaced by silver tubes over a stainless steel wire. Circular silver tubular collar with hook and eye clasp; at regular intervals around circumference are seventeen egg-shaped slightly convex non-identical petals of glass hanging (slightly overlapping) by tapered end from flattened silver mounts in non-matched abstract biomorphic shapes; silver stamped on tube near clasp: "JM".Provenance
Source
James Minson
(b. 1962)
Object copyright© James Minson
Corning Inc.
Jane Beebe
