Period:Unknown Production date:2009 (made)
Materials:rock crystal
Technique:carved (stages)
Description:
Stages in carving Elsa Peretti’s rock crystal pendant knot motif or quadrifoglio (four leaved clover), showing how it develops from pencil outline to complex finished piece. a) a flat piece of crystal showing pencil outline. b) pendant cut to shape and inner holes marked out. c) knot motif hollowed out before polishing.
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![图片[1]-pendant BM-2009-8033.18.a-c-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00945217_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-pendant BM-2009-8033.18.a-c-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_00945218_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-pendant BM-2009-8033.18.a-c-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_Peretti_knot_pendant_tif.jpg)
Comments:When this piece was first created in 1978 it was mde in red jasper with a black silk cord. It was inspried by Peretti’s love of Japan, specifically silk. The name ‘quadrifoglio’ (Italian for four leaved clover) was attached much later, in the early 2000s, for marketing purposes. The rock-crystal version (see 2009.8004.4 for the finished pendant) was carved in 2008. Carvers have to train for six years before they have gained the skill to carve this motif. After carving, the rock crystal is polished before being strung on a chain or silk cord as a pendant.
Materials:rock crystal
Technique:carved (stages)
Description:
Stages in carving Elsa Peretti’s rock crystal pendant knot motif or quadrifoglio (four leaved clover), showing how it develops from pencil outline to complex finished piece. a) a flat piece of crystal showing pencil outline. b) pendant cut to shape and inner holes marked out. c) knot motif hollowed out before polishing.
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Comments:When this piece was first created in 1978 it was mde in red jasper with a black silk cord. It was inspried by Peretti’s love of Japan, specifically silk. The name ‘quadrifoglio’ (Italian for four leaved clover) was attached much later, in the early 2000s, for marketing purposes. The rock-crystal version (see 2009.8004.4 for the finished pendant) was carved in 2008. Carvers have to train for six years before they have gained the skill to carve this motif. After carving, the rock crystal is polished before being strung on a chain or silk cord as a pendant.
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