Four-Color Channel Inlay Earrings
Zuni Jewelry
- Savvy Price $175.00
- Gallery Price $225.00
- Title
- Four-Color Channel Inlay Earrings
- Artist
- Zuni Jewelry
- Medium
- Sterling silver, natural turquoise, Mediterranean coral, natural gold lip shell and natural jet
- Troy ounces
- .26 troy ounces
- Size
- 2" length (pendant and post together), 5/16" width X 3/32" depth
- Signed
- No
- Date of creation
- Circa 1970's
- Condition
- Excellent !
- Turquoise
- Natural American possibly from New Mexico
- Description
- Four sacred stones with the gold lip substituting for the white mother of pearl normally used. The four colors represent the four sacred mountains and directions. Very carefully made with fine silver strips defining each area of color and material. The pendant hangs with a nice movement.
- Design
- Fabrication is from commercially prepared sheet silver. Bezels at post are hand-cut.
- Provenance
- Consigned by an Arizona collector of fine American Indian vintage jewelry cc
- Gram weight
- 7.3 grams
- About The Four-Color Channel Inlay Earrings
Beautiful pair of sterling silver earrings with handsome four-color channel inlay. The work and design are definitely Zuni, yet these earrings have a post-modernist appeal. Created at some point in the 1970's, the choice of materials and how they were used in the earrings, go back in tradition to the early 1900's. It is a blending of old and new that will add its own sophisticated touch to any ensemble, whether casual or formal!
- About Zuni Jewelry
- The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni cluster jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making. Volume II. Look at page 48 illustrating each step to create a cluster bracelet.
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