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Necklace Necklace
This is a necklace. It was designed by Daniel Kruger. It is dated 2015 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is clear and mirrored arcylic, flower petals, leaves, insects, silver, pigment. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
In this necklace Kruger captures the chaotic patterns of flowers and insects behind glass in the manner of traditional lockets or portrait cameos while alluding to the scientific views of organisms under a microscope.
This object was
donated by
Susan Lewin.
It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-8
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
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- plated metal.
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Its dimensions are
32.5 x 15.7 x 1.1 cm (12 13/16 x 6 3/16 x7/16 in)
It has the following markings
Marked on reverse of center oval: stamped with conjoined 'DK/5/925', slight green coloration within 925
Cite this object as
Necklace Necklace; Designed by Daniel Kruger (German, b. 1951, South Africa); clear and mirrored arcylic, flower petals, leaves, insects, silver, pigment; 32.5 x 15.7 x 1.1 cm (12 13/16 x 6 3/16 x7/16 in); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-61
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.
