VTG 60s KAY DENNING Mid-Century Modernist Enamel Copper Necklace Chocker

Stunning copper toned Modernist enamel chocker, large raised fused glass rectangles on each link.

Backside is white with signature

Measurements:

14.5 long w curve x .75 w

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Designer:

Kay Denning was an artisan jeweler who created enameled copper jewelry in the 1960s and 1970s. Her designs, with their Modernist influences, were rendered in bold, geometric patterns. 
Known for the rich deep glow of her enamels that she crafted using raised cookies of glass. Her distinctive style features designs made with large ‘frit’ cookies or globs of colored glass with contrasting color backgrounds.
Her work, when signed is marked, “Denning” or “K. Denning,” usually in green on a white background. 
Her copper jewelry, with its bold enamel designs, have a devoted following among collectors who now scour the market for mid-20th Century enamels. Enameling achieves a rich, colorful result due to the fusing of powdered glass to metal by firing. The glass powder melts, flows and hardens to a smooth, vitreous coating on metal, glass or ceramic.