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LAPIS Necklace
This is a necklace. It was designed by Ruudt Peters. It is dated 1997 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is ground jade mixed and cast with acrylic resin, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Few jewelers are as profoundly involved with the mystical aspects of jewelry as Peters. His Lapis pendant was inspired by the alchemical search in the Middle Ages for the “philosophers’ stone,” a legendary material that could not only change base metals into silver and gold but be taken as a rejuvenating elixir.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Base
- jade with hardstone base.
- 1912-15-2-a,b
- Necklace And Pendant
- jade,gold, thread.
- Gift of Nell Gertrude Brown.
- 1960-64-1
- Drawing, Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions
- pen and black ink, brush and yellow, brown wash, graphite on light blue laid....
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-629
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Censer (Italy)
- bronze.
- Gift of Mrs. Russell C. Veit.
- 1951-66-16
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 17.3 × 12.5 × 7 cm (6 13/16 × 4 15/16 × 2 3/4 in.) H x W x D (pendant): 7 × 4.5 × 4 cm (2 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
No marks found
Cite this object as
LAPIS Necklace; Designed by Ruudt Peters (Dutch, b. 1950); ground jade mixed and cast with acrylic resin, gold; H x W x D: 17.3 × 12.5 × 7 cm (6 13/16 × 4 15/16 × 2 3/4 in.) H x W x D (pendant): 7 × 4.5 × 4 cm (2 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-90
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
