Foxy Diamond-Shaped Turquoise Inlay Cuff Links
Frank Dishta
- Savvy Price $275.00
- Gallery Price $350.00
- Title
- Foxy Diamond-Shaped Turquoise Inlay Cuff Links
- Artist
- Frank Dishta
- Medium
- Sterling silver, natural Blue Gem turquoise, commercial cuff link back is silver plated red bronze
- Troy ounces
- .23 troy ounces
- Size
- Face is 13/16" in length X 1/2" in width. Will accommodate 1/2" thick cuff.
- Date of creation
- Circa 1935-1940
- Condition
- Excellent
- Turquoise
- Natural Blue Gem mine turquoise
- Description
- Each of the faces were set with 25 round 1.5mm hand-cut turquoise stones.
- Provenance
- KW
- Gram weight
- 6.9 grams
- About The Foxy Diamond-Shaped Turquoise Inlay Cuff Links
The decorative face of each cuff link is made of mill-rolled ingot sterling silver. From this sheet small circular bezels were fabricated and soldered to a sterling back plate, which was cut to the scallop-edged diamond shape of the bezel grouping for each cuff link face.
Total of 50 inlaid turquoise stones range from intense blues to blue green to teal in color.
These beautiful "diamond" cuff links by Zuni master, Frank Dishta, are without a doubt the finest example of channel inlay this artist produced. The resulting diamond shaped "honey combs" with their Blue Gem turquoise inlays have a refined, tailored elegance rarely seen in contemporary work. After 80 years, these diamonds are proving they "are forever".
- About Frank Dishta
- Frank Dishta, of Zuni Pueblo, was born in 1902. A jeweler since 1924, he developed a unique style of flush channel inlay, using sterling silver and Lone Mountain turquoise. His work is in the permanent collection of the Heard Museum and other prestigious institutions.
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