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The work of the Amsterdam-based designer Ted Noten comes with a manifesto: “Jewelry should be famously curious.” His pieces a brooch cast from chewed gum, shattered porcelain cups hanging from a gold chain are not your standard charm bracelet. A few years ago, when Noten, a former psychiatric nurse, was invited to create a piece with pearls for an exhibition, he dressed a dead mouse in pearls and encased it in an acrylic pendant. He recently expanded into handbags with gold-plated guns, pills…