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Cluster Knuckles Ring

Maker: Art Smith, American, 1917-1982
Medium: Silver alloy, rhodochrosite, jade (?), turquoise (?), zoisite (?)
Place Made: New York, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1968
Dimensions: 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (3.8 x 8.9 x 6.4 cm)
Markings: Impressed on back: "Art Smith"
Inscriptions: "49" written in ink on verso.
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Special Exhibition Gallery, 4th Floor
Accession Number: 2007.61.17
Credit Line: Gift of Charles L. Russell
Image: Overall, 2007.61.17_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: A large ring of pink, turquoise, green-and-purple-mottled and orange, oval-shaped, semi-precious cabouchon stones that spans three fingers. The stones are framed in silver and affixed to wires that are soldered together to form two openings for fingers, between the smaller orange and larger purple-green stones and the smaller turquoise and larger pink stones.

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