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"Lava" Bracelet

Maker: Art Smith, American, 1917-1982
Medium: Silver
Place Made: New York, New York, USA
Dates: designed ca. 1946
Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 2 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (6.4 x 6.7 x 14.6 cm)
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Special Exhibition Gallery, 4th Floor
Accession Number: 2007.61.16
Credit Line: Gift of Charles L. Russell
Image: Overall, 2007.61.16_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: An elongated cuff of organic, abstract forms made from two layered sheets of metal. The smaller top layer echoes the forms of the bottom layer, and the two are soldered together in some areas and in others pulled apart. Patination is used on the bottom layer to define the overlapping of the top layer.

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