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Whorl Pendant Neckpiece
This is a Neckpiece. It was designed by Jennifer Trask. It is dated 2010 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is carved cow and ox bone, snake vertebrae, resin, plastic (found objects), diamonds, gold, silver . It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Bones and visceral animal parts are symbols of life and death that are part of Trask’s powerful vocabulary. In her Whorl Pendant she creates an amalgam of carved cow and ox bone, snake vertebrae and found plastic objects as well as diamond encrusted wheels that suggest elements of permanence amidst the transience of life.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- Carving
- bone.
- 1919-1-5
- Button
- ivory.
- 1931-59-120-c
- Necklace (USA)
- gold, stone, diamonds.
- Gift of Irena Brynner.
- 1991-165-12
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Its dimensions are
28.5 cm H x 17 cm W x 3.4 cm D
It has the following markings
Stamped Jt
Cite this object as
Whorl Pendant Neckpiece; Designed by Jennifer Trask (American, b. 1970); carved cow and ox bone, snake vertebrae, resin, plastic (found objects), diamonds, gold, silver ; 28.5 cm H x 17 cm W x 3.4 cm D; The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2022-42-6
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
