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Cono Brooch

This is a Brooch. It was designed by Renzo Pasquale. It is dated 2015 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is stoneware (gres ceramic), gold with neillo (alloy of silver,copper, and lead sulfides). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Driven by the beauty of line and form, and known for his work with gold and semi-precious stones, in this brooch Pasquale overcomes technical challenges to combine dissimilar ceramic, gold, and niello materials.

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: 7.5 × 6.5 × 1.5 cm (2 15/16 × 2 9/16 × 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

On reverse, along one edge: Pasquale 15 (written in pencil or marker?)

Cite this object as

Cono Brooch; Designed by Renzo Pasquale (Italian, b. 1947); stoneware (gres ceramic), gold with neillo (alloy of silver,copper, and lead sulfides); H x W x D: 7.5 × 6.5 × 1.5 cm (2 15/16 × 2 9/16 × 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-9

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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