John Plenderleith

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Description

`Toothbrush & Toothpaste'. A unique silver Pop Art brooch
maker's mark, London
9cm. long by 8cm. wide
3½in., 3in.

realistically modelled

Provenance

Electrum Gallery, London, 1972.

Literature

The Times, 11th April, 1972;
British Vogue, November, 1972;
Illustrated: Ralph Turner, Contemporary Jewelry A Critical Assessment 1945-1975, Wallop, 1976, pp. 146-147. Plenderleith writes of his intention: `To create one thing that looks like something else. To hide in a three-dimensional object another function, to secrete its real raison d'être.'

Catalogue Note

An invoice from Electrum Gallery confirms that John Jesse bought this lot on December 4th, 1972.