Silver, Gold, and Glass Brooches and Necklace, Julie Anne Mihalisin

The silver paperclip link necklace suspending seven removable square brooch stations, each station set with glass within gold and silver, signed Jam and '94 for date, completed with double pin stem. Necklace testing silver and brooches testing silver and 18KT.

Necklace 35.25 in.; Brooches 7/8 x 7/8 in.

5.625 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.

Accompanied by a photocopy of receipt dated 11/21/94 from Riley Hawk Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio.

Good estate condition.