Snake ring and box

Schlangenring

Bernhard Schobinger (Swiss, born in 1946)

1995

Medium/Technique Copper, uncut diamond; leather box, lined with blue velvet, decorated with paint, ink, and found objects including cloth nametag with artist's name

Dimensions Overall (ring): 3.8 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm (1 1/2 x 1 x 7/8 in.)
Overall (box): 4.8 x 6.4 x 7.9 cm (1 7/8 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line The Daphne Farago Collection

Accession Number2006.504.1-2

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Jewelry, Contemporary Art

ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Sets

DescriptionRing of coiled copper resembling a snake enclosing rough dark uncut diamond; in artist-made box.

Signed Inside of box signed and dated B.S./1996

InscriptionsUnderside of box inscribed in gold paint: DIE/SCHLANGE/DIE SICH/SELBST/VER-/SCHLINGT/B.S. (The snake that swallows itself B.S.)

ProvenanceDaphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.