Ring
1959-1960 (designed and made)
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This innovative ring, described by its designer Saara Hopea-Untracht as a 'Wing' ring, extends both above and below the band and across the adjoining two fingers, to create an extensive jewelled area on the back of the hand. Saara Hopea-Untracht, one of Finland's leading twentieth-century designers, worked in many media. From a family of goldsmiths, she began designing jewellery in 1958, and her designs were made in the family workshop in the town of Porvoo. This ring features spectrolite, a distictive Finnish stone.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gold and spectrolite |
| Brief description | Gold ring with a large bezel, spectrolites, pyramid forms and gold balls, designed and made by Saara Hopea-Untracht, Finland, 1959-1960 |
| Physical description | Gold ring with a large bezel that extends across three fingers, decorated with three spectrolites, four pyramid forms and seven small gold balls. |
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| Credit line | Given by Oppi Untracht |
| Summary | This innovative ring, described by its designer Saara Hopea-Untracht as a 'Wing' ring, extends both above and below the band and across the adjoining two fingers, to create an extensive jewelled area on the back of the hand. Saara Hopea-Untracht, one of Finland's leading twentieth-century designers, worked in many media. From a family of goldsmiths, she began designing jewellery in 1958, and her designs were made in the family workshop in the town of Porvoo. This ring features spectrolite, a distictive Finnish stone. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ramshaw, Wendy, Saara Hopea-Untracht, 1925-1984, Metalsmith, Fall 1984, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p.6 |
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| Accession number | M.9-2006 |
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| Record created | September 26, 2006 |
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