A sizable brooch fabricated from patinated brass and glass gems. The composition consists of representational disparate components made of brass with a blue caste; a large head of an angel with wings, a smaller five pointed star below, a wide circular grid with a thick bezel decorated with a large gem glistening through and multiple colorful glass gems in assorted cuts, below to the right. A branch projects horizontally to the left with a bunch of hanging grapes along with larger grapes and grape leaves cascading to the right with a large putto carrying a torch, baby angel, overlapping the leaves. Additional colorful glass jewels are scattered throughout the composition with several pear shaped stones hanging from the bottom of the brooch. The photograph is taken against a light gray ground in a front view.

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Object Timeline

-0001	We photographed this object.
1987	We acquired this object. Work on this object began.
2015	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #18622625

This is a brooch. It was designed by Torben Hardenberg. It is dated 1987 and we acquired it in 1987. Its medium is patinated brass, glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.

A brooch of a laminated black and white newspaper image of a soccer player kicking a ball. In mid strike, the player looks down and to the left toward his feet and ball with his hair flowing towards the right. He wear his sports jersey striped shirt and shorts. His legs are well defined, kicking the ball. His right sneakered foot is shown while the left is covered by the circular aquamarine gem.

Blinker Brooch, 1988
gold, acquamarine, pvc-laminated newspaper.
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2016-34-4

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 14 x 12.4 x 1 cm (5 1/2 x 4 7/8 x 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Object ID #18622625; Designed by Torben Hardenberg (Danish, born 1949); patinated brass, glass; H x W x D: 14 x 12.4 x 1 cm (5 1/2 x 4 7/8 x 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn; 1987-49-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Virtue in Vice.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DrRK/
Accession Number 1987-49-1
Object ID 18622625