Cluster Knuckles

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Four-stone Cluster Knuckles ring by Art Smith. The four oval-shaped stones are each placed in an individual bezel setting and give the illusion of floating next to each other in a square pattern. The largest stone on the top left is a magenta color. Below it is the smallest stone, a translucent color; next to it is an orange-white-red layered stone; and last, to the right of the large stone, is an orange iridescent stone. On the back of the large magenta stone and orange iridescent stone is the main band of the ring. Each of these two main stones have an additional ‘band’ connecting them to the other stones, the magenta stone with the smallest stone and the orange iridescent stone with the layered stone. The inside of the band between the orange iridescent stone and the layered stone is stamped with Art Smith’s hallmark.

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