Period Dangling Pierced Earrings
Navajo
- Item Purchased
- Savvy Price $495.00
- Gallery Price $575.00
- Title
- Period Dangling Pierced Earrings
- Artist
- Navajo
- Medium
- Sterling and coin silver and natural turquoise
- Size
- From top of wire to bottom is 2" height X 5/8" width. Each oval handcut stone is 3/8" height X 1/4" width.
- Signed
- No, as is customary for jewelry from this period
- Date of creation
- Circa 1920's
- Condition
- Excellent. No repairs and none is needed.
- Turquoise
- Natural American probably Cerillos from New Mexico, beautiful variegated green next to no matrix
- Description
- Well matched stones are full low dome stones that have become greener with wear. Forged from ingot. Draw plate pulled wire is used for the drops. Hand-made stamping dresses the frame around each stone.
- Provenance
- Obtained by current owner in the 1970's from an old Santa Fe family. These earrings were well cared for and belonged to a family that established a mercantile business in Santa Fe "before the railroad came through" in the early 1880's. kw
- About The Period Dangling Pierced Earrings
Turquoise represents water and there are 4 extended silver pendants on each earring made of silver hammer-shaped like long rain drops. These represent precious rainfall which equals prosperity and abundance.
- About Navajo
- The Navajo were the first of the Native Americans of the Southwest to learn silversmithing from the Spanish. Most Navajo jewelry emphasizes silver, with turquoise stones used as an accent. Some pieces are cast in sand or tufa molds, while others are hammered, using a male stamp and a female die.
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