<I>"Pendulum"</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1963
name: label: Created by
content: Art Smith, American, 1917 - 1982
notes: label: Description
content: This is the “Pendulum" necklace designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The necklace is made of a sterling silver wire shaped as an open-ended torque necklace, or neck ring, with flattened ends to contain a movable sterling silver sphere the ring runs through. The back of the sphere has a hole. Attached to the bottom of the sphere is the pendant’s long, vertical metal rod that begins circular, is horizontally flattened in the middle, and is vertically flattened at the end. Attached here is a flattened disk with a ring at the bottom is attached to the end of the metal rod to complete the pendant. The necklace has two hallmarks on the backside of neck ring’s right flattened end, [STERLING] followed by Smith’s signature [Art Smith].
place: label: Place made
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Necklace by Art Smith
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Craftsmanship
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Fashion design
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Jewelry and Adornment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Russell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.12.19
objectType: label: Type
content: necklaces
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: sterling silver
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 11 × 4 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (27.9 × 11.7 × 3.8 cm)