Roaring Bear Overlay Ring
Tony Burton
- Savvy Price $185.00
- Gallery Price $225.00
- Title
- Roaring Bear Overlay Ring
- Artist
- Tony Burton
- Medium
- Sterling silver
- Troy ounces
- .39 troy ounce
- Size
- Ring size is 9. Three quarters of inch diameter is size of ring's face. Shank width is 1/3".
- Signed
- "TB" is stamped hallmark on shank's interior
- Date of creation
- Circa 1990
- Condition
- Excellent
- Provenance
- CC
- Gram weight
- 12.3 grams
- About The Roaring Bear Overlay Ring
This animated design produces nearly the sound of the bear as well as an image.
Notice the geometric scroll, how it emphasizes the bear's energy in bellowing a roar.
- About Tony Burton
(active 1989 - 1993) Anthony (Tony) Burton was a Honani Crafts trainee from Hopi.
Burton signed his work with a hallmark consisting of a conjioned "T" and "B".
He is listed in Margaret Nickelson Wright's book Hopi Silver The History and Hallmarks of Hopi Silversmithing as well as Bille Hougart's publication The Little Book of Marks on Southwestern Silver Silversmiths, Designers, Guilds and Traders.
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