[Bracelet] In its intricate detail, Richard Mawdsley's feast bracelet resembles masterworks by Renaissance goldsmiths. It represents a banquet table laden with carved, chased, and turned objects-- including lamps with jade globes, knives, forks, goblets, plates of fruit (actually tiny pearls), coffee and tea pots, and a bottle of wine in a bucket filled with ice cubes.

Mawdsley designed the bracelet to recall 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings of feast-laden tables accurately representing the table-top setting.

Courtesy of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, gift of the James Renwick Collectors' Alliance in honor of Lloyd E. Herman and Director Emeritus.

Feast Bracelet, 1974, by Richard Mawdsley (b.1945), United States, sterling silver, jade, and pearls enamel, shell, ruby, garnet, blue topaz, rhodolite, amethyst, and spinel

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