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Object NameNecklace

Artist James Minson (b. 1962)

Studio Tama Art University

Made FromLead glass, strlng silver

Date1988

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)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

Japan

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".
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