Tabletop Owl Fetish of Alabaster with Turquoise Eyes
Aaron & Thelma Sheche
- Marked Down $475.00
- Gallery Price $750.00
- Title
- Tabletop Owl Fetish of Alabaster with Turquoise Eyes
- Artist
- Aaron & Thelma Sheche
- Medium
- Alabaster and natural turquoise (both with matrix)
- Size
- Overall height is 6 1/2" height X 3" width at the widest part of his rock perch. Owl alone is 3 5/8" height X 1 5/8" width X 1 5/8" depth.
- Signed
- No
- Date of creation
- Circa 1985
- Condition
- Excellent
- Description
- This fetish weighs a little over 24 ounces.
- Provenance
- CP
- About The Tabletop Owl Fetish of Alabaster with Turquoise Eyes
The body of the owl and his base or perch are carved from a single piece of ivory white alabaster laced with a brown to tan matrix. The creature's eyes are natural dusk blue turquoise with rust red matrix. These cabochons are low domed and each measure about 5/16" in diameter.
The cleave way the turquoise eyes are set with the dark matrix "looking down" to the owl's left, as he leans into what has seemed to capture his attention, gives this little fellow a lot of life.
- About Aaron & Thelma Sheche
- Aaron (1910-2002) and Thelma Sheche (born in 1928) are respectively the son in law and daughter of Theodore Kucate. Zuni fetish carvers of the twentieth century, they are referenced in many books on Zuni fetish carvers.
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