Materials: sterling silver with 24 kt gold wash
Dimensions: Garlic 41/2" x 3" spoon 9"
Garlic Salt cellar with scallion spoon. Sterling silver with 24kt gold washed spoon and cellar bowls.
I made this life sized from an elephant garlic from my garden. It was featured in the James Beard Award winning book "Salted A Manifesto" by Mark Bittman.
Photo credit: Jo Haemer
Jo Gentry Haemer
Portland, Oregon. USA
I'm a second generation artist. I was born and partially raised in Europe, so we were dragged by my late father to every cathedral and museum he could find. As a result I became fascinated with the heavily jeweled reliquaries of the saint's various body parts. I was a liturgical silversmith for awhile then became a custom jeweler. I still love to make boxes. I call them my "Caprichos" or caprices.
This piece I made after a fresh heirloom tomato from my yard. I used chasing tools inherited from the late Stephan Burkes who was a Faberge Jeweler. His chasing tools were made from the building spikes from the Nazi death camp where he was interred. He survived by trading the guards trinkets made with these tools for food to survive.
Materials: sterling silver with 24 kt gold wash
Dimensions: Garlic 41/2" x 3" spoon 9"
Garlic Salt cellar with scallion spoon. Sterling silver with 24kt gold washed spoon and cellar bowls.
I made this life sized from an elephant garlic from my garden. It was featured in the James Beard Award winning book "Salted A Manifesto" by Mark Bittman.
Photo credit: Jo Haemer
Jo Gentry Haemer
Portland, Oregon. USA
I'm a second generation artist. I was born and partially raised in Europe, so we were dragged by my late father to every cathedral and museum he could find. As a result I became fascinated with the heavily jeweled reliquaries of the saint's various body parts. I was a liturgical silversmith for awhile then became a custom jeweler. I still love to make boxes. I call them my "Caprichos" or caprices.
This piece I made after a fresh heirloom tomato from my yard. I used chasing tools inherited from the late Stephan Burkes who was a Faberge Jeweler. His chasing tools were made from the building spikes from the Nazi death camp where he was interred. He survived by trading the guards trinkets made with these tools for food to survive.