Daniel Arsham elevates the one-cent coin into a patinated bronze capsule that shields a diamond-soaked HardWear necklace, and Tiffany offers just 39 of them worldwide.
Tiffany & Co. and Daniel Arsham keep trading jewelry for sculpture with their newest object of desire: the Bronze Eroded Penny Vessel. Only 39 were cast, each one hand-finished in New York, turning a humble cent into something ready for the collector’s cabinet.
Arsham borrows from both the 1885 Great Seal penny and his 2013 Study of the Eroded Penny, letting polished crystal veins punch through a green-tinged patina. The piece reads like a find from a future dig yet feels unmistakably current thanks to the artist’s fracture motif.
Lift the lid and the Tiffany & Arsham Studio HardWear necklace waits inside. The 18 karat white-gold chain carries more than 1 000 diamonds, totaling over six carats, and upward of 500 tsavorites that add another three carats of green shimmer; its industrial links trace back to a 1962 archive design.
Each vessel ships in a Tiffany Blue art-handling crate, complete with matching box and co-branded gloves, reinforcing its status as equal parts sculpture and jewel box.
