Featured Description for This Monstrous Pendant / Slide

2-3/4" across and almost 40 grams. Modernist? Free form? The Blob?

I don't know what to call it. Suggestions appreciated.

 

Nice piece, but I can't help ID it. Wow.

 

Kind of looks like a handkerchief draped over something.

 

It kind of does, doesn't it?

Gosh, why don't people sign their work?

 

Probably just the fact that it is 40 grams will attract attention; I just don't want to put something stupid in the title where buyers think, "goodness, she has no clue"....lol.

 

It's definitely a slide - looks like it could also be worn as a pendant. The holes are big enough for a silk scarf and I'll bet that's what it was for originally. Most of the 80s ones were costume, but once in a while you find something in precious metal.

 

At first I thought it was a belt buckle because it's so big. Then I noticed the pendant loop, and realized that it was probably a scarf slide too. I've found a couple of other sterling ones, but none even remotely similar.

 

Maybe student art. Our high school has a jewelry course and the kids make fantastic stuff. I don't know if they sign it. Personally, this is the kind of jewelry I like. Big and bold that makes a statement. Hmm. Are you tie.dye.cat on ebay?

 

Yup, link to my store is in my signature.

Student art seems like a good possibility.

 

Hi,
heaving amoeba.
greg

 

Haaaa, oh man, that got me laughing. It does look kind of like an amoeba, doesn't it?

 

Just checked your site. I think we have collected some of the same stuff! I've been giving things to my friend Marie to list since I don't have time any more. I might have to watch for this piece (like I need more jewelry.)

 

I should be listing it within a few days (and a person can never have enough jewelry! lol)

 

Isn't there some kind of pasta shaped like that?

 

Yes. My shells when I overcook them. LOL

 

looks like gloved fingers were used to make the pattern....

 

I think modernist and free form are both good, or danish modern, plus amorphous, organic.
Somewhere around here, I have a ring that I think would match this thing and if I remember correctly, it is marked Denmark, with a maker's mark, too.

 

I used modernist and free form (and amoeba! lol), and just listed it.

Would love to know the mark, lauragarnet, if you come across the ring.

 

You might be in luck, since I've been poking through old folders on the hard drive.
I have found a folder with notes from August 2007(how time flies!) "MJH Finland Silver Ring Research". Along with links to sites to ID jewelry marks, my notes say: "Finland Matti J. Hyvarinen often commented Hyvarinen designs similar to the work of Bjorn Weckstrom".

I don't have any pictures in the folder, darn, but I did have this ring floating around in a catch-all dish on my desk until July 2012 when I packed everything up to move house.

I haven't been too peppy since we moved, due to being mostly dead from ruptured appendix, peritonitis, other complications, long, painful "recovery" and I don't know if I'll ever be the same again. Ack! I don't know where anything is anymore!