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Photo: Scott Leen
TIN NUTS (There Is Nothing New Under The Sun)
Photo: Scott Leen

TIN NUTS (There Is Nothing New Under The Sun)

Date1975
Label TextKen Cory studied ceramics in Oakland in the 1960s before returning to Eastern Washington and continuing to work in jewelry as a medium. In his jewelry, as in his earlier ceramics, he played irreverently with his use of materials, often using found objects and defying expected assignations of value around jewelry and art. Describing his jewelry as “small portable sculptures,” he said that “the pieces are functional only to the extent that they are not heavy to wear.”
Object number99.32
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Anne Gerber Biennial: 2000 1/2: going forward looking back, May 8, 2000 - August 4, 2000. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.
Credit LineGift of the Cory family
Dimensions14 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3/8 in. (36.8 x 8.9 x 1.0 cm)
MediumWood, brass, mirror, silver, and glass
Japanese
mid 19th century
Object number: 33.526
E. W. Godwin
ca. 1875
Object number: 2013.21
Oni Holding Shoki Under Basket
18th-19th century
Object number: 33.374
Photo: Paul Macapia
Congolese
Object number: 81.17.835
Image courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery
1984-2002
Object number: 2008.65
Pipe and Tobacco Pouch (kiseru to tobako-ire)
Japanese
19th century
Object number: 87.11
two views
Chinese
19th century
Object number: 33.926
Snuff bottle
Chinese
18th - 19th century
Object number: 33.1097