Gold, Silver, and Glass Necklace, Julie Anne Mihalisin

The gold square snake chain necklace suspending ten variously sized rectangular stations of glass, silver, and gold, completed with silver hooks to each end, signed Jam / 1994. With receipt stating "glass, 24K, 18K, 14K golds and silver."

Center station 1 3/8 x 15/16 in.; Necklace 23.5 in.

142.8 dwt.

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.

Accompanied by a photocopy of receipt dated October 18, 1994 from The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Good estate condition