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Fulfillment Necklace
This is a necklace. It was designed by Bruce Metcalf. It is dated 2004 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is carved and painted maple, gold-plated brass; painted wood, plexiglass (case). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Metcalf’s focus in this work is on sensuous, abstracted forms of flowers and decorative shapes that make quite unmistakable references to sexuality. Each element is carved and painted by hand with a composition that reinvents Baroque exuberance with contemporary vitality.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Amoebas Button
- aluminum.
- Museum purchase through gift of William Hindley and Mrs. Paul Moore and from....
- 1998-58-11
- Fragment (Japan), 18th century
- silk, paper with applied gold foil.
- Gift of Alan L. Wolfe.
- 1942-86-29
- W.W. Stool
- sand-cast and enameled aluminum.
- The Linda and Irwin R. Berman Stool Collection.
- 2003-23-1
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Figure Pin #147 (Wingnut and Errant Dandelion) Brooch With Holder
- maple, electroformed copper, brass, silver, carved plexiglas, delrin, gold leaf.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1998-14-1-a/c
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (necklace): 31 × 28 × 2.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 11 in. × 1 1/16 in.) H x W x D (case): 48.8 × 41 × 9 cm (19 3/16 × 16 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
On reverse of one green leaf form: "METCALF / 2004" painted in red
Cite this object as
Fulfillment Necklace; Designed by Bruce Metcalf (American, b. 1949); carved and painted maple, gold-plated brass; painted wood, plexiglass (case); H x W x D (necklace): 31 × 28 × 2.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 11 in. × 1 1/16 in.) H x W x D (case): 48.8 × 41 × 9 cm (19 3/16 × 16 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-71-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
