Franco Cannilla

Private Collection, Europe

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Vicenza, Italy, Museo del Gioiello Vicenza, Gioiello & Simbolo, 2014

Cincinnati, Ohio, Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s, 2022 for a similar example

Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Jewels of the Italian Modern Masters, Didier Ltd., London, 2015, p. 15

Cynthia Amnéus, Cameron Silver, and Adam MacPhàrlain, Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s, D. Giles, Lewes, UK, 2020, p. 95 for similar example

This Gold Link Bracelet for Masenza-Roma is a testament to Cannilla’s range in jewelry production, from the figurative to the biomorphic to the abstract. In this rare version of a link bracelet, comprised of textured, punched, and beaten precious metal, Cannilla seems to be inviting gold to reveal all its malleable possibilities. The bracelet also looks heavy, almost a burden, but the sculptor surprises us as he has created hollow links which actually make it a pleasure to wear, all the while maintaining its appearance of grandeur.