Brooch, Wings, from the Curiosity Collection
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Brooch, Wings, from the Curiosity Collection
This is a brooch. It was designed by Terhi Tolvanen.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It has been able to spend time at the museum on loan from The Rotasa Collection Trust.
Tolvanen’s brooch defies conventional form and is likely to be read as much as a pair of earrings as it is a brooch. Mother-of-pearl is cut into thin pieces and laid into the separate, symmetric shapes of wings; their delicate nature conveys a feeling of lightness. The mother-of-pearl is layered like feathers into the wood and silver wings. The two shapes connect on the back with a clasp to form the brooch.
It is credited Courtesy of the Rotasa Collection Trust and Ornamentum Gallery.
- Swan earrings Earring
- gold, enamel, garnet, glass.
- 1956-200-1-a,b
- Earrings (Italy)
- coral, gold.
- Gift of the estate and in memory of Robert B. Noyes.
- 1946-50-22-a,b
- Turret Pair Of Earrings
- oxidized sculpted bronze, bent gold wire.
- Gift of Susan M. Yecies.
- 2011-19-1-a,b
Our curators have highlighted 12 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Necklace, Jungle Twins, from the Jungle collection
- silver, wood, hawk’s eye.
- Courtesy of Susan Beech and Ornamentum Gallery.
- 16.2015.2
- Scene, Pollock's Scenes in Cinderella, Scene 2
- printed and colored paper mounted on cardboard.
- Gift of W. H. Solle.
- 1938-61-7-b
- Drawing, Ovals/shells with wings/p
- graphite, white paper.
- Gift of Alfons Bach.
- 1993-108-401
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 8 × 6 × 3 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
