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Choker #48
Mary Lee Hu (American, born in 1943)
1979
Object Place: East Lansing, Michigan
Medium/Technique
Fine and sterling silver, 24 kt gold, lacquered copper
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm (9 1/4 x 7 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.257
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Necklaces and neck bands
DescriptionSilver necklace formed of two curved wires. Suspended below are curved silver wires emerging from wavy rim of basket. Rim is wavy woven gold and laquered copper wire in colors of rust and cranberry. Body of basket is black and silver laquered copper wire also twined.
Marks
"HU"
ProvenanceSchneider-Bluhm-Loeb Gallery, Inc.(Chicago); 1990, purchased by Daphne Farago of Little Compton, Rhode Island (September 18, 1990); 2006, gift of Farago to the MFA (Accession date: January 25, 2006)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.