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Massive Morenci or Turquoise Mountain Pendant

Navajo

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Title: Massive Morenci or Turquoise Mountain Pendant
Artist: Navajo
Medium: Sterling silver and natural turquoise
Size: 32" chain, 3" height X 2 9/16" width pendant excluding 1/4" bale
Signed: No
Date of creation: Circa 1970's
Condition: Excellent with almost 40 year patina
Turquoise: Deep to medium blue natural North American Morenci or Turquoise Mountain, flecked with light blue and brown
Design: Fabrication from commercially prepared sheet silver file carved with hand-cut bezel. Chain hand-made from silver wire 3/16" in width.
Provenance: Consigned by gentleman who inherited his grandmother's art collection CP; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Massive Morenci or Turquoise Mountain Pendant

Massive beauty! This gorgeous artfully cut and polished slab of natural deep to medium blue turquoise is like wearing a piece of the sunlit heavens reflected in a slow, clear stream.

The silver setting is clean and simple with a scallop notched half round wire frame surrounding a rine rope twist at the bas eof a deep smooth bezel. This handsome pendant is suspended from a very heavy hand-made silver chair 32" in length.

Such a prize can be well worn by any man or woman in love with turquoise and silver. Created almost 40 years ago by a skilled Navajo artist, this work was never signed. An artist is known by family and friends.

Unmarked jewelry is seldom made for tourists . . .

Rare at anytime to find such a good large stone which has been cut to conserve as much as possible of the scarce material.

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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