Necklace with Four Pendants #73

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Artist Hermann Jünger(German, 1928–2005)German, 1928–2005

CultureGerman

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Necklace with Four Pendants #73

Date1993

Made inPöring-bei-München, Germany

MediumGold, lapis lazuli, agate, and stone

DimensionsOverall (.A): 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (0.2 × 15.6 cm)
Overall (.B): 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (0.3 × 3.8 cm)
Overall (.C): 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
Overall (.D): 1/8 × 2 × 1 in. (0.3 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm)
Overall (.E): 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (0.3 × 3.5 cm)
Overall (.F & .G storage box): 7/8 × 5 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. (2.2 × 14.6 × 14.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker

Object number2014.836.A-.G

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Object Type

JEWELRY & ADORNMENT

ProvenanceThe artist; [Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, c. 1993]; Purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, b. 1945, in the late 1990s; given to MFAH, 2014.
Published References Hufnagl, Florian and Eva Junger, eds. Found Treasures: Hermann Junger and the Art of Jewelry. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. Schmuckstücke, Fundstücke. Mainz, Germany: Schmidt Publishers, 2002. Neuman, Ursula Ilse. “Hermann Junger: The Jeweled Meadow.” Metalsmith 22, no. 1 (2002): 20-29. Spiros, Lisa. “Hermann Jünger: From the Mind to the Making.” Metalsmith 10, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 30-35. Hermann Junger: Uber den Schmuck und das Machen: neue Goldschmiedearbeiten. Frankfurt: Anabas Verlag, 1996. Strauss, Cindi. Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection. Stuttgart and Houston: Arnoldsche Art Publishers and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Engraved into the interior of the box: 73 93

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