A black circular brooch with a gritty ground texture decorated with six irregualry shaped gold squares with smooth surfaces arranged in two groups of three crescents at the upper left and lower right quadrants. The group on the lower right is dominated by a larger square with somewhat wavy edges. All of the other squares, though distinctive in their rough edges, are of roughly the same size, and appear to float in the black ground in relation to each other.

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1980	Work on this object began.
1999	Work on this object ended.
2016	We acquired this object.
2017	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
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NOT TITLED Brooch

This is a brooch. It was designed by Thomas Gentille. It is dated late 20th century and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is bronze, gold, industrial paint. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Gentille occasionally uses gold for its unsurpassed light collecting and reflecting qualities, focusing primarily on brooches in alternative materials that have little or no traditional association with jewelry including aluminum and bronze.

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

Drawing, Study in Color and Form
brush and watercolor, pen and ink on vellum paper.
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2017-26-1

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stamped and rolled gold, cut opalescent glass, metallic foil.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1967-48-8-a,b

Vase (Austria)
enameled and gilt porcelain.
Gift of Justin G. Schiller.
1992-100-13

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cotton.
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Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 0.5 × 7 cm (3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

On reverse, close to the bottom, stamped block letters: T. GENTILLE; underneath: DeMARCO SERIES

Cite this object as

NOT TITLED Brooch; Designed by Thomas Gentille (American, b. 1936); bronze, gold, industrial paint; H x diam.: 0.5 × 7 cm (3/16 × 2 3/4 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-37

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/R36zP/
Accession Number 2016-34-37
Object ID 554917309