Traditional Silver & Turquoise Concho Belt
P.J. Begay
- Marked Down $2,100.00
- Gallery Price $3,300.00
- Title
- Traditional Silver & Turquoise Concho Belt
- Artist
- P.J. Begay
- Medium
- Sterling silver, copper, turquoise and leather belt
- Size
- Leather belt is 49 1/2" in length.Never punched and therefore never worn, its size can be adjusted by its new owner. Belt's width is 3/4.
- Signed
- "P.J. Begay" is stamped on buckle's verso, as is "Sterling"
- Date of creation
- Circa 1970
- Condition
- Mint !!!
- Turquoise
- Natural turquoise with lacy black matrix, entirely consistent with the black leather belt.
- Provenance
- From the famed Vault Collection assembled over a period of 40+ years! HR
- About The Traditional Silver & Turquoise Concho Belt
Eighteen(18) hand-forged and stamped elements make up this traditional Navajo concho belt. Each element (concho, butterfly and buckle) has repousse detail as well as embossed stamping. This lends additional depth to the labor intensive layout of scalloped edges and bezel set oval turquoise cabochons.
The buckle is somewhat rectangular measuring 2" high X 2 1/2" in length with a tongue on bar fastened to the opening from behind. Its decoration resembles a bow or butterfly, which is echoed in the 9 butterfly pieces that alternate with the 8 oval conchos in the belt.Two well-matched oval turquoise cabochons bookend the buckle's opening. Each domed oval measures 2" high X 2 1/8" length and features a repousse daisy pattern in the center. A copper band secures each element to the leather belt.
Well cared for, this belt would accent any garment with its classic, demonstrative design.
Marked Down from $2,900 to $2,100
- About P.J. Begay
- This Navajo jeweler created work primarily during the last quarter of the 20th century. Little else in currently known about the artist.
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