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Picture Perfect I

(American, born in 1943)
1991
Object Place for LabelProvidence, Rhode Island
Medium/Technique22 kt gold, Australian opal
DimensionsOverall: 5.1 x 5.2 x 1.3 cm (2 x 2 1/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit LineThe Daphne Farago Collection
Accession number2006.366
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Description
Louis Mueller taught sculpture and metalsmithing for many years at the Rhode Island School of Design, training a generation of young artists and introducing the American audience to many important European jewelers. Daphne Farago commissioned Mueller to set these brilliantly colored Australian opals. Mueller made the settings geometric because the rectangular stones reminded him of television screens. 
ProvenanceOpals from R. Dufty Fine Gems; Daphne Farago, February 3, 1990. Settings from Louis Mueller Gallery; Daphne Farago, June 3, 1991.
Daphne Farago; to MFA, 2006, gift of Daphne Farago.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
Group shot: 2006.366, 2006.367
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