Slave Manacle

Description

Artwork, entitled 'Slave Manacle', forged steel, silver, inlaid with inscription 'Diamonds Gold and Slavery are Forever': England, Dorset, by David Poston, 1975

Museum reference

K.2012.14

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Artwork

Production information

Poston, David, 1948 (b.), Jewellery designer
Portland, Dorset, England, Northern Europe

Date

1975

Materials

Steel, Silver

Exhibitions

• Making and Creating (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Electrum Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition (2010 - 2010)
  Electrum Gallery

• The Pleasures of Peace: Mid-Century Craft and Art in Britain (1999)
  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
  Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
  Aberdeen Art Gallery

• David Poston at Electrum Gallery (1975 - 1975)
  Electrum Gallery

References

The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts and Yale University Press, 1999

On display

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