An airship for Baron M. Mounted
pin-brooch,
2007
20ct gold, 18th century Delft glass bead, 18ct white gold pin materials:
It may have been the presence in my childhood home of square-rigged galleon and ship models, forbidden to my young touch, which made me want constantly to draw them, and to devise variant forms in which they also became ground-, or water-, to-air ships. This particular craft, with its light cargo of early memories, drifted into existence from the arrival on my horizon of this 18th century Delft glass bead, plump with the Dutch (and French) maritime colours, and begging to set sail once again.
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48mm 27mm mount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 419.MP-B.07 hidden alchemy: 216 height (without pin): width:
