Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Eight-sided matt-finish open form with curvilinear outer edge and straigt-sided inner edge; the pierced and etched surface devided into geometric units, the whole based on the floor plan of a Palladian villa. Hinged closure of two straight pins on reverse.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Michael Becker, German, b. 1958
- Date
- 1989
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Monet Funds
- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5.5 x 5.3 x 1.1 cm (2 3/16 x 2 1/16 x 7/16 in.)
- Type
- jewelry
- Decorative Arts
- Brooch
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