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Brooch

This is a Brooch. It was designed by Arline Fisch. It is dated 1984 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is sheet silver, mosaic stone, rolled and compressed stainless steel mesh and knitted copper wire. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Fisch used woven steel mesh and knitted copper wire to contrast with the flat silver sheets to produce a richly nuanced surface effect in this brooch.

This object was donated by Susan Lewin. It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

  • Micro-mosaic Pendant
  • gold sheet and wire, glass mosaics.
  • Gift of Frederick Saal in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Saal.
  • 1991-160-8

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 15.1 × 6.6 × 1.2 cm (5 15/16 × 2 5/8 × 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Mark on Reverse - stamped "STERLING/ A within a fish image/ 84

Cite this object as

Brooch; Designed by Arline Fisch (American, b. 1931); sheet silver, mosaic stone, rolled and compressed stainless steel mesh and knitted copper wire; H x W x D: 15.1 × 6.6 × 1.2 cm (5 15/16 × 2 5/8 × 1/2 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-30

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

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