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Margaret De Patta’s rutilated-quartz-and-onyx ring from 1954 exhibits the

qualities typical of her

oeuvre, where the organic,

the handmade, and

machine-tooled intersect. As Museum of Arts and Design curator Ursula Ilse-Neuman puts it, “It’s very unusual for a jeweler

to be that interested in constructivism and the Bauhaus movement.”