Arts and Crafts metalworker Marie Zimmerman experimented freely with materials, surface, color, and applied ornament. Many of her designs acknowledge historical precedents, including Egyptian, Classical, and Chinese art. Educated at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute, she ran her studio at the National Arts Club in New York. In the late 1930s, she created this pair of mirror-image bangles that combine antique Chinese jade, each taken from half a “dragon playing pearl” style bangle, with a polychrome enameled dragon head with a green scale body. The bangles were shown in an exhibition of her work in Santa Barbara, California in 1939 and remained in her possession for the rest of her life.