Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Tapered Nautilus Necklace

About the Item

Created as a one of a kind necklace in the late 1970's, this is part of the Nautilus series that Robert Lee Morris designed and made by hand in Soho NYC. Using two elongated hollow tapered tubes as the body, and a graduating series of half domes culminating into a a pointed hollow arrowhead shape, the Nautilus series is identified by the use of graduating half domes that culminate into a front of necklace form, either a ball, or an angular wedding of two tubes that are joined at an angle. Dramatic architecture for a piece of jewelry! Only about 23" long, but fitting higher on the neck due to the dramatic hard lines of the tubing. Morris is known for very soft and organic shapes, and this is a blend of both hard and soft in his quest for "Liquid Geometry"
  • Creator:
  • Metal:
  • Weight:
    2.5 oz
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12 in (304.8 mm)Width: 1.5 in (38.1 mm)Depth: 0.75 in (19.05 mm)Diameter: 1.5 in (38.1 mm)Length: 24 in (609.6 mm)
  • Style:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1977
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. This is a new piece, not preowned, and in mint condition having been made in 1977.
  • Seller Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3141218306382

More From This Seller

View All
Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Percussion Pectoral on Wire Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
A very early Robert Lee Morris Necklace, this design if silver tubing, balls, coils and coconut shell, is very iconic of the first decade of Morris' designs. Created originally in th...
Category

Vintage 1970s American Modern Drop Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Soft Jet Linked Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
Looking like soft supersonic jets, flying in perfect heel to toe formation, Robert Lee Morris has created this iconic fluid necklace of sterling silver castings, linked from behind to make a modern...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modern Choker Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Butterfly Brooch
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
This is an unusually complex brooch design of curling and coiling forms, in a symmetrical pattern to resemble an abstract butterfly. The sleek sterling silver and the rich sculptural...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modern Brooches

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Squiggle Brooch
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
The iconic organic styling of Robert Lee Morris is so evident in this dramatic large brooch created in the late 1980's. Due to his long collaboration with designer Donna Karan, Rober...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modern Brooches

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Saxophone Brooch
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
Created in 1987 during the huge fashion trend for oversized brooches, this beautiful dynamic piece resembles an abstract saxophone, or even stylized ve...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modern Brooches

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver Tusk Earrings
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in New York, NY
In the early 1980's Robert Lee Morris was making dramatic earrings that caused a sensation in the fashion world. These simple graduated "Tusk" earrin...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modern Drop Earrings

Materials

Sterling Silver

You May Also Like

ROBERT LEE MORRIS Sterling X Motif Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in Wallkill, NY
ROBERT LEE MORRIS, RLM Necklace. Measures 17 in end to end. You can adjust the size down to 14-3/4 ------ .75 in wide on the links. Hallmarked RLM. This is out of our massive collect...
Category

1990s American Choker Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Necklace Large Disc 1990s RLM
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in Wallkill, NY
Double Strand Necklace with a huge Circular drop, made by RLM in the 1980s-1990s. Brushed Gold tone finish. 15.5 end to end. 2.15 inches diameter on the disc, which drops down 5 inc...
Category

1990s American Chain Necklaces

Materials

Gold Plate, Sterling Silver

Iconic Robert Lee Morris Modernist Sterling Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 2005, Sterling Silver, by Robert Lee Morris, New York. This hyper-modern sterling necklace is part of a collection created in 2005 by Robert Lee Morris for Donna Karan's runwa...
Category

Early 2000s American Modernist Pendant Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris Modernist Sterling Dart Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in Chicago, IL
Circa 1980s Robert Lee Morris Sterling Silver "Dart" collection Necklace, measuring 17 1/2 inches in length 1 1/4 inches wide and weighing 5.75 ounces. A Robert Lee Morris Classic ve...
Category

Vintage 1980s American Modernist Choker Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris for Artwear Gold Plated Sterling Silver Sculptural Necklace
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in North Miami, FL
This period vintage gold plated link necklace was designed and executed in the late 70's by Robert Lee Morris when he had his Art Wear gallery in NYC/ Soho. It is a fine example of his organic and sensual sculptural forms. It is a necklace today that remains timeless and modernist as he bridged the worlds of fashion and art as one. It is wearable jewelry that evokes a sensuality. The links that are reinterpreted teardrop forms with a modernist approach in jewelry design are modernity brought to a high level. Robert Lee Morris during his high time...
Category

Vintage 1970s American Modern Link Necklaces

Materials

Gold Plate, Sterling Silver

Robert Lee Morris RLM Sterling Silver Link Necklace 1990s New, Never worn
By Robert Lee Morris
Located in Wallkill, NY
Heavy Sterling Link Robert Lee Morris RLM Necklace Hand Signed. Measuring 20 in end to end Links graduate in size from 1.33 in long x .8 in wide down to .30 in wide x .71 in long. Th...
Category

1990s Link Necklaces

Materials

Sterling Silver

Recently Viewed

View All