Yellow Bird Brooch

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Yellow Bird Brooch

Robert W. Ebendorf (American, born in 1938)

about 1995

Object Place: Boulder, Colorado

Medium/Technique Silver, 18 kt gold, lapis, tin

Dimensions Overall: 11.1 x 7.6 x 1.3 cm, 51.9 gm (4 3/8 x 3 x 1/2 in., 0.1 lb.)

Credit Line The Daphne Farago Collection

Accession Number2006.141

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas

ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Brooches

DescriptionRusted tin can top with applied silver ornaments and fragments, with a yellow painted tin bird secured to the tin can lid with a silver pin topped with a silver spiral; a gold and lapis tear-drop-shaped pendant hangs from the tin can's pull tab.

Signed " R Ebendorf" on lapis drop

ProvenanceRobert Edendorf; Daphne Farago, October 9, 2000 Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.