fabricated and photo etched silver, brass, and stainless steel
Dimensions:
17 1/8 × 8 7/8 × 2 1/8 in. (43.4 × 22.4 × 5.3 cm)
Type:
Decorative Arts-Jewelry
Crafts
Date:
2002
Luce Center Label:
“Brisings’ Stole,” from Lori Talcott’s Arbor Mundi series, is an homage to the mythic Brisingamen, a necklace belonging to Freyja, the Norse goddess ruling over life and death. The necklace is a symbol of Freyja’s creative and destructive powers, and is described in Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry. Talcott took facsimiles from all the original medieval texts that mention the piece and photoetched them onto the metal. In this way, Brisings’ Stole contains the entire history of the necklace.
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ina and Jack Kay
