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2025

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Corners Necklace

This is a necklace. It was designed by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray. It is dated 2006 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is molten tin poured on commercial brass chain then silver-plated and oxidized. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Mimlitsch-Gray spilled molten tin onto chain to allow random elements rather than goldsmith's practice to control the outcome. The deliberate use of plating, like applying makeup on the surface of the free form, is a transparent attempt to make precious what had been an accidental spill.

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

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 27.5 × 15.3 × 0.5 cm (10 13/16 in. × 6 in. × 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

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Cite this object as

Corners Necklace; Designed by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (American, b. 1962); molten tin poured on commercial brass chain then silver-plated and oxidized; H x W x D: 27.5 × 15.3 × 0.5 cm (10 13/16 in. × 6 in. × 3/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2022-42-4

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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