A Silver and Glass Lapel Pin and A Silver and Glass Lapel Pin, Julie Anne Mihalisin

The brooch in Modern form featuring amber colored glass set within a conforming silver bezel, completed with double pin stem, signed JAM 1993, with receipt stating "one of a kind / 1993 / silver & glass" (7/8 x 1 5/8 in.); and a lapel pin in circular form with glass set within a silver bezel, completed with a lapel pin post and back, signed JAM 1993, testing silver (15/16 in.).

1.260 total troy oz.

The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Julie Anne Mihalisin (b. 1962) studied jewelry at Tyler School of Art and as a graduate student at London's Royal College of Art. Mihalisin quickly developed a fascination with the contrasting properties of glass and metal. The artist uses the technique of "kiln-slumped glass jewelry," in which a metal framework that helps shape the glass is in turn entrapped in the glass. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Museum of Arts and Design.

The amber glass lapel pin accompanied by a photocopy of purchase receipt dated September 28, 1993 from The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Good estate condition.