Vintage 1960s Modernist Quartz sterling silver Ring

A large Center Carved Onyx Stone dominates this Dweck Ring. The Stone is set in Sterling Silver. Dated 1992 inside the shank of Ring. Hallmarked Stephen Dweck / 925. Measures 1.10 x...

Stunning Hand made sterling silver Ring. Massive Yellow quartz stone bezel set in sterling. The ring is hallmarked inside the shank. It measures 1.04 in....

This is vintage Dweck, dated 92 inside shank of the Ring Bronze wash over the sterling. This is a Massive Vintage Stephen Dweck Sterling Silver R...

Stunning Large stone set in sterling silver. Measuring 1.63 at the top to bottom x 1.23 in wide. Size 5.5. This is out of a massive collection of Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Southwestern, st...

Composed of silver, lacquer and reverse painted and engraved crystal, this exceptional ring was a collaboration of two French modernist artists, Després and Cornault. The ring centers a glass crystal prism above a polychrome abstract-design painting in miniature by Cornault, mounted by Després within a silver and black lacquer surround, flanked by stepped and incised chevron form shoulders with subtle dark patination. Uniting an intriguing abstract painting with the geometry of interlocking planes and layered strata, this rare ring is powerful work of painterly and sculptural modernism. Product Details: Item #: R-21132 Artist: J Després and E Cornault Country: France Circa: 1930 Size: 6.75 (this ring can be sized; please contact the gallery for further information) Materials: Glace peinte/Reverse-painted crystal; Black lacquer; Silver Signed: "J. Desprès", "JD" maker's mark, French guarantee stamp for silver. Provenance: Given by the artist to his niece, and by descent in her family. Exhibition History: "Étienne Cournault (1891-1948)" at Musées de la Cour d’Or à Metz, 25 June to 24 October 1994. This ring was presented as number 94 in the exhibition catalogue. Literature: This ring appears in "Jean Després; Jeweller, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age", Thames & Hudson, 2009, by Melissa Gabardi, on p. 197. Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: This important ring is one of a small group of “Bijoux-Glaces” or “Mirror Jewels”. These jewels represent the collaboration between two French Modernist artists, Étienne Cournault (1891-1948) and Jean Després (1889-1980). Cournault was from Lorraine, and had been educated at L’Ecole de Nancy in graphic and applied arts. He was active in Paris as a painter, draughtsman, and print maker in the 1920s. Moreover, he was the premier practitioner of the rarified technique of reverse painting on crystal, which he elevated from a traditional decorative art by creating intriguing miniature paintings of Surrealist and Cubist inspiration. Cournault met Després, an accomplished silversmith who moved in the circle of Modligiani, de Chirico, Braque and Signac, when Jacques Doucet commissioned the artists to complete an ornate metal table...

Sterling silver ring with dark smokey quartz cabochon created by an unknown French jeweler. Ring is reminiscent of one that Vivianna Torun designed in the 1960's for Georg Jensen and also designs by Gilles Jonemann...

An hand-crafted cocktail ring manufactured in Italy in the Nineties by Anomis, it's in lovely condition, the amethyst color briolette cut hydrothermal quartz and the rhodium plated ...

Pentti Sarpaneva, Finland. Modernist ring in silver, 830. Finnish design. Dated 1975. Diameter: 18.5 mm. Stamped. In excellent condition.