Summer Jewels & Watches 
26 June 2024
Summer Jewels & Watches 
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Christian Schmidt

Sterling silver necklace


Designed as vertebrae. This work is number 1 from the edition of 10; 1960s
Sterling silver
Necklace 19 in, pendant 7.75 x 2 in; Gross weight 113.3 dwts
estimate: $2,500–3,500
result: $2,520
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There came the realization that I had been adhering to an unquestioned traditional concept of the form of jewelry... Why couldn’t a pendant be a totally three-dimensional hanging sculpture? Why shouldn’t it have visual and structural coherence when seen from all directions?

Christian Schmidt

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