Object Details
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- Richard Mawdsley states that he likes jewelry because “fantasy comes off better on this scale.” Feast Bracelet is a miniature version of an extravagant dining spread, including fruit, silverware, and drinking chalices. Mawdsley based many of the objects in this piece on historical metalworks he saw in photographs and in museum collections. The feast-laden table also refers to seventeenth-century Dutch still-life paintings. Creating a “feast for the eyes,” Mawdsley probably intended this piece as an homage to masterpieces of painting and metalwork.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Richard Mawdsley, born Winfield, KS 1945
- Date
- 1974
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance in honor of Lloyd E. Herman, director emeritus, Renwick Gallery
- Medium
- sterling silver, jade, and pearls
- Dimensions
- 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (9.6 x 7.0 x 11.5 cm.)
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Jewelry
- Crafts
