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Necklace

1953

John Paul Miller

(American, 1918–2013)
Culture
America, Ohio, Cleveland
Medium
gold
Measurements
Overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.); Pendant: 7 x 4.6 cm (2 3/4 x 1 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Silver Jubilee Treasure Fund 1953.181
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
228B Cleveland Artists
Print

Description

John Paul Miller's fascination with jewelry technique emerged in his groundbreaking rediscovery in the early 1950s of granulation, an ancient, forgotten technique of fusing gold beads to a gold surface without using solder. The fleeting creatures of earth, sea, and sky, such as the insect on this necklace, became his muses, inspiring a body of work full of curiously textured forms.
Gold necklace with a chain of overlapping teardrop shapes at the center of which hangs a beetle-like insect ornament. The insect has an oval body, flanked by four legs and squaring at the top. It connects with a circular section, two longer protrusions curving around a three-pronged protrusion on top of the sections. Between the prongs nestle two spherical bundles of smaller spheres, also coating the head and body and, more sparsely, protruding limbs.

Necklace

1953

John Paul Miller

(American, 1918–2013)
America, Ohio, Cleveland

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