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A Denise Wallace "Killer Whale" pin/pendant image 1
A Denise Wallace "Killer Whale" pin/pendant image 2
A Denise Wallace "Killer Whale" pin/pendant image 3
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Lot 16Y

A Denise Wallace "Killer Whale" pin/pendant

16 September 2019, 11:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$956.25 inc. premium

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Denise Wallace

Chugach Aleut, (b. 1957), "Killer Whale" pin/pendant, 1988, sterling silver and fossil ivory.
height 2 3/4in, width 2 5/8in

Footnotes

Literature
Dubin, Lois Sherr, Arctic Transformations: The Jewelry of Denise & Samuel Wallace, Easton Studio Press/Theodore Dubin Foundation, New York, NY, 2005, p. 70, fig. 83.2, a similar example illustrated

This piece is apparently unmarked with an edition number; it may have been a one-off commission inspired by Wallace's "Killer Whale Belt" of 1984, prior to her limiting editions to three to five pieces.

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