This necklace is made up of eight distinct pieces, each of a different color. All of the pieces are amorphous in shape except for the one on the bottom, which is pale green and made to look like a cluster of three leaves. Five of the designs are of unidentifiable media. Of the remaining three, one is wood, one is metal and one is a dark brown carved nut or seed. The pearls attached to the end of each piece separate the elements and hold the necklace together.

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Fulfillment Necklace

This is a necklace. It was designed by Bruce Metcalf. It is dated 2004 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is carved and painted maple, gold-plated brass; painted wood, plexiglass (case). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Metcalf’s focus in this work is on sensuous, abstracted forms of flowers and decorative shapes that make quite unmistakable references to sexuality. Each element is carved and painted by hand with a composition that reinvents Baroque exuberance with contemporary vitality.

This object was donated by Susan Lewin. It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Amoebas Button
aluminum.
Museum purchase through gift of William Hindley and Mrs. Paul Moore and from....
1998-58-11

Fragment (Japan)
silk, paper with applied gold foil.
Gift of Alan L. Wolfe.
1942-86-29

W.W. Stool
sand-cast and enameled aluminum.
The Linda and Irwin R. Berman Stool Collection.
2003-23-1

Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.

Figure Pin #147 (Wingnut and Errant Dandelion) Brooch With Holder

Figure Pin #147 (Wingnut and Errant Dandelion) Brooch With Holder
maple, electroformed copper, brass, silver, carved plexiglas, delrin, gold leaf.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1998-14-1-a/c

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (necklace): 31 × 28 × 2.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 11 in. × 1 1/16 in.) H x W x D (case): 48.8 × 41 × 9 cm (19 3/16 × 16 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

On reverse of one green leaf form: "METCALF / 2004" painted in red

Cite this object as

Fulfillment Necklace; Designed by Bruce Metcalf (American, b. 1949); carved and painted maple, gold-plated brass; painted wood, plexiglass (case); H x W x D (necklace): 31 × 28 × 2.7 cm (12 3/16 in. × 11 in. × 1 1/16 in.) H x W x D (case): 48.8 × 41 × 9 cm (19 3/16 × 16 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-71-a,b

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/R36Bt/
Accession Number 2016-34-71-a,b
Object ID 554917405