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Jewelry designers began to experiment with plastic soon after its invention in the late nineteenth century. This fascination continued in the 1940s, when artists investigated the properties of Plexiglas, and in the 1960s, when designers combined acrylic with precious metals such as gold. By the 1980s, some jewelers defied the notion of plastic as a mass-produced industrial material by using time-intensive techniques and hand labor to form plastic jewelry. Cara Croninger first cast her bracelet from polyester resin, then hand-finished and carved the piece to create a bold, luminous sculptural form.
Bracelet
Cara Croninger (American, born in 1939)
about 1983
Object Place: New York, New York, United States
Medium/Technique
Polyester resin
Dimensions
Overall: 8.6 x 12.1 x 7 cm (3 3/8 x 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Daphne Farago Collection
Accession Number2006.112
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Contemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Bracelets and armlets
Jewelry designers began to experiment with plastic soon after its invention in the late nineteenth century. This fascination continued in the 1940s, when artists investigated the properties of Plexiglas, and in the 1960s, when designers combined acrylic with precious metals such as gold. By the 1980s, some jewelers defied the notion of plastic as a mass-produced industrial material by using time-intensive techniques and hand labor to form plastic jewelry. Cara Croninger first cast her bracelet from polyester resin, then hand-finished and carved the piece to create a bold, luminous sculptural form.
DescriptionCuff bracelet in stripes of clear and black resin.
Inscriptionsscratched interior: "1983/ (illegible signature)"
ProvenanceBy 2006, Daphne Farago; 2006, gift of Daphne Farago to the MFA (Accession date:January 25, 2006)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.