Thursday, February 6, 2014

Gift Basket Beads







Beads for the EK Gift Basket.

Beads are based on period designs, and pictures of those period beads are included below.

Modern Earings


Created using a twisted stringer of clear and white (to get the latticino effect) and with a red stripe laid on top of the white. You wouldn't think it, but adding that little red stripe made creating the stringer MUCH more difficult. There were several attempts before I was satisfied.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Frankish Pendant

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art






Pendant
Date:
500–600
Geography:
Made in Niederbreisig, Germany
Culture:
Frankish
Medium:
Copper alloy (rings & cap), glass (beads)
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 5/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/8 in. (18.5 x 3 x 1 cm)
Classification:
Metalwork-Copper alloy
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:
17.193.52