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Merry Renk
'Green Fire' Ring1974

Not on view
Gold cocktail ring with a large rough rutilated quartz stone, organic sculptural band with engraved texture, and a small perching bird figure set with a green stone
Gold ring with a large irregular translucent smoky quartz stone set in a yellow gold mount sculpted as budding tulip stems with textured, naturalistic detail.

Merry Renk, 'Green Fire' Ring, 1974, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Merry Renk
American, 1921 - 2012
Title
'Green Fire' Ring
Date Made
1974
Medium
Gold, rutilated quartz, tourmaline
Dimensions
1 1/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 in. (3.18 × 3.18 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2016.21.29
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
© Merry Renk