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Two Tiffany & Co. 18K Gold and Hardstone Bangle Bracelets, Angela Cummings
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$50,000
Created circa 1980, these Angela Cummings for Tiffany & Co. bangle bracelets are composed of hardstones and 18k gold. Of the two 18K gold hinged bangles, the first is inlaid at intervals with irregular undulating lines of turquoise, green and blue lace chalcedony, red jasper, lapis lazuli, amethystine, and the second with turquoise, green and blue lace chalcedony, and amethystine. Casual yet glamorous, these colorful, glowing gold bangles speak to Cummings' ultra-modern and artistic sensibility.
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Item #: BA-21409
Artist: Angela Cummings for Tiffany & Co.
Country: United States
Circa: 1980
Materials: Turquoise; Amethystine; Green and blue lace chalcedony; Lapis lazuli; Red Jasper; 18K Gold
Signed: CUMMINGS T&CO 18KT C
Literature: A similar bangle was featured with a group of Angela Cummings for Tiffany jewelry in a Vogue photo shoot with the model Kelly LeBrock in 1980, as pictured in Tiffany Jewelry, by John Loring, p, 211.
Angela Cummings began working as an assistant to Donald Claflin in 1967, and completed a seven year design apprenticeship with him. A supportive teacher, Claflin nurtured Cummings' unique style and vision for modern jewelry. In the mid-1970s, just before he left Tiffany, Claflin had begun pushing the boundaries of what had been accomplished at Tiffany with carved hardstones, creating spectacular high, relief polychrome work, culminating in a bracelet set with large rock crystal top set over underlying fields of round brilliant-cut diamonds. Cummings shared Claflin's vision of the potential of colored hardstones, but her aesthetic was one of simple, dynamic forms, derived both from nature and geometry, inlaid with unusual materials such as those in these bangles. Her popular, luxurious jewelry, easily transferrable from casual to formal situations, remains chic and stylish.