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LAPIS Necklace

This is a Necklace. It was designed by Ruudt Peters. We acquired it in 2016. Its medium is ground jade mixed and cast with acrylic resin, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Few jewelers are as profoundly involved with the mystical aspects of jewelry as Peters. His Lapis pendant was inspired by the alchemical search in the Middle Ages for the “philosophers’ stone,” a legendary material that could not only change base metals into silver and gold but be taken as a rejuvenating elixir.

This object was donated by Susan Lewin.

Base
jade with hardstone base.
1912-15-2-a,b

Necklace of 56 green jade beads, strung symmetrically with gold rings. Flat rectangular pendant carved with foliage, flowers, and buds. Attached to beads with gold wire and separated by an oval rose-quartz bead.

Necklace And Pendant, ca. 1900
jade,gold, thread.
1960-64-1

Horizontal rectangle. At left is the censer, whose upper end is at right, the chains curved; the boat is in the center below. Alternative suggestions at right provide for cherubims supporting festoons at the foot of the censer, for cherubim in clouds on top of it, for a shaft in the form of a column, and for lion masks at the body of the boat; the main decorations at left consist of flutes; on top of the censer is a basket with flowers.

Object ID #18548017
pen and black ink, brush and yellow, brown wash, graphite on light blue laid....
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1938-88-629

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A panelled octagonal foot resolves into a twisted knop to a round gadrooned bowl, the upper rim of which bears four pierced lugs to receive chains. The lugs are matched on the base of the pierced top which is in the general form of an octagonal tower with voluted beam ends and an imbricated faceted roof.

Censer (Italy), probably 18th century
bronze.
Gift of Mrs. Russell C. Veit.
1951-66-16

Cite this object as

LAPIS Necklace; Designed by Ruudt Peters (Dutch, b. 1950); ground jade mixed and cast with acrylic resin, gold; 2016-34-90

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/2kgsWx/
Accession Number 2016-34-90
Object ID 874387499