Thingy

Any idea what is /part of what is this? The green appears to be plastic like.
Thanks

 

Without knowing the size it looks like a mold, my first thought was for making false teeth??

 

Ice cube tray pendant on hinges. Are the gold splatters worn off painted design, do you think?

 

The brass plate is about 2 1/4".

 

Seriously Kardi, I think it's a pendant, artisan made, and if it's not ethnic, I think key words would be modernist, brutalist, kinetic.

 

Don't you see his palm ?

 

I concur...

 

Brutalist? Googling that now!

Edit - WOW! Distressed, as if pulled from a cataclysmic situation... half-melted, rugged. Good to know!

 

Wow! not until you said it, even looked twice to see if size was mentioned. What would my diagnoses be about that??

 

saw thread title, first thing in my mind, that monty python sketch about putting a tax on ''thingy''

 

Ummm....you're not a palm reader ???

 

I read palms! I see Kard will soon be selling a fabulous piece of brutalist-modernist-kinetic jewelry!

 

Its a prosthetic toe holder..........lol

 

Ahhhhh!
For modernist brutalist kinetic pedicures.

 

Yikes!

 

A lot of Rafael Alfandary pendants have two bails for the chains but seems like his pieces should be signed.

 

There's two possibilities that I can think of about the original construction (not maker, about that I don't have the slightest clue).

It could have been a two part pendant, that had a bigger piece above this one, and this part dangled below. So would be missing two pieces. part of the pendant, plus chain.

Or, it's "as is" originally and only missing the chain.

Now it would be interesting to identify the green, carved material. From the pics, my first guess would be some kind of soap stone. But you think it feels like plastic, and I'm pretty sure you'd know the difference. Mid-century "wonder plastic" of some kind?

 

The green is anything but stone.

 

Yes, I understand that. Sorry if I didn't make myself plainly understood on that point.

Anyway, this is the closest thing I've found, and the seller calls it a "carved plastic insert". The length measurement is the same as yours is.

http://modernistjewelry.net/

Maybe these plastic pieces were commercially made and could be ordered by the gross from distributor warehouses. Or could have been custom carved by the artisan jewelry maker....?

 

Amazing, Laura.