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Sharon Church
'Scatter Pins'1998

Not on view
Sculpture of a realistically modeled brown-skinned hand, palm down, with four small gold bezel-set gemstone discs arranged in a descending diagonal below
Carved wooden hand, life-sized and naturalistically rendered in warm tan tones, with a polished brass door knocker mechanism mounted on the back.
Close-up of a circular gold metal disk mounted on a smooth wooden sculptural form, stamped with the text "CHURCH" and "14K" within an oval cartouche, with two small metal posts visible.
Artist or Maker
Sharon Church
United States, 1948-2022
Title
'Scatter Pins'
Place Made
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Date Made
1998
Medium
Lemonwood, gold, buffalo horn, diamonds
Dimensions
Hand pin: 2 3/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 in. (6.99 × 3.18 × 2.54 cm) each diamond pin: 3/8 × 3/8 × 3/8 in. (0.95 × 0.95 × 0.95 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2014.198.47.1-.5
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Sharon Church