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Lot 314
Two kinetic rings, by Friedrich Becker and three further rings
Closed9 October 2012
Price Realised
GBP 3,500
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Two kinetic rings, by Friedrich Becker and three further rings
The first designed as a polished hoop with a display base, set with a bead supporting a rotating hemispherical surmount, finger size L; the second mounted with a rotating circular plaque set with a rectangular diamond-set shape and a further swiveling similar shape with circular ruby terminal, to a polished hoop with display base, finger size N; a stainless steel kinetic ring, composed of two graduated rotating navette shaped panels to a waisted cross section hoop, designed by Michael Berger; and two rings: one with a stainless steel rectangular hoop containing a free moving square chrysoprase block, the other an elongated oval hoop containing a shaped dumortierite panel and a cultured pearl triangular cluster, designed by Framz J. Bette
Partially illustrated
The first signed F. Becker 71 with maker's mark B, the second with maker's mark B (5)
The first designed as a polished hoop with a display base, set with a bead supporting a rotating hemispherical surmount, finger size L; the second mounted with a rotating circular plaque set with a rectangular diamond-set shape and a further swiveling similar shape with circular ruby terminal, to a polished hoop with display base, finger size N; a stainless steel kinetic ring, composed of two graduated rotating navette shaped panels to a waisted cross section hoop, designed by Michael Berger; and two rings: one with a stainless steel rectangular hoop containing a free moving square chrysoprase block, the other an elongated oval hoop containing a shaped dumortierite panel and a cultured pearl triangular cluster, designed by Framz J. Bette
Partially illustrated
The first signed F. Becker 71 with maker's mark B, the second with maker's mark B (5)
Two kinetic rings, by Friedrich Becker and three further rings
The first designed as a polished hoop with a display base, set with a bead supporting a rotating hemispherical surmount, finger size L; the second mounted with a rotating circular plaque set with a rectangular diamond-set shape and a further swiveling similar shape with circular ruby terminal, to a polished hoop with display base, finger size N; a stainless steel kinetic ring, composed of two graduated rotating navette shaped panels to a waisted cross section hoop, designed by Michael Berger; and two rings: one with a stainless steel rectangular hoop containing a free moving square chrysoprase block, the other an elongated oval hoop containing a shaped dumortierite panel and a cultured pearl triangular cluster, designed by Framz J. Bette
Partially illustrated
The first signed F. Becker 71 with maker's mark B, the second with maker's mark B (5)
The first designed as a polished hoop with a display base, set with a bead supporting a rotating hemispherical surmount, finger size L; the second mounted with a rotating circular plaque set with a rectangular diamond-set shape and a further swiveling similar shape with circular ruby terminal, to a polished hoop with display base, finger size N; a stainless steel kinetic ring, composed of two graduated rotating navette shaped panels to a waisted cross section hoop, designed by Michael Berger; and two rings: one with a stainless steel rectangular hoop containing a free moving square chrysoprase block, the other an elongated oval hoop containing a shaped dumortierite panel and a cultured pearl triangular cluster, designed by Framz J. Bette
Partially illustrated
The first signed F. Becker 71 with maker's mark B, the second with maker's mark B (5)
Friedrich Becker was an internationally renowned goldsmith, a creator of kinetic jewellery and kinetic objects, a designer and a professor at the Dusseldorf Technical College. He made a major contribution to goldsmith art in the second half of the twentieth century.
As early as the 1950s Friedrich Becker developed hidden mountings with interchangeable stones considered a technical marvel at the time (...). This new concept led in the 1960s to kinetics, where Friedrich Becker first introduced the fourth dimension in jewellery design: movement
In 1997 the London Royal College of Art awarded him the title of honorary doctor.
Michael Berger worked with Friedrich Becker while Franz F Bette served an apprenticeship with Becker.
As early as the 1950s Friedrich Becker developed hidden mountings with interchangeable stones considered a technical marvel at the time (...). This new concept led in the 1960s to kinetics, where Friedrich Becker first introduced the fourth dimension in jewellery design: movement
In 1997 the London Royal College of Art awarded him the title of honorary doctor.
Michael Berger worked with Friedrich Becker while Franz F Bette served an apprenticeship with Becker.
Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. Please be advised that a purchasers inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute
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With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating
in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S.,
provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).