Extremely Wearable Squash Blossom Necklace & Earrings
Zuni
- Savvy Price $3,200.00
- Gallery Price $3,800.00
- Title
- Extremely Wearable Squash Blossom Necklace & Earrings
- Artist
- Zuni
- Medium
- Sterling silver and natural turquoise
- Troy ounces
- 2.47 troy ounces (necklace), .15 troy ounces (both earrings together)
- Size
- Necklace is 19" in length overall. Naja measures 2 1/4" height X 2" width. Each blossom is 5/8" in length.
- Date of creation
- 1930's
- Condition
- Excellent
- Description
- Earrings measure 1 1/2" length from top of wire to tip of petals.
- Provenance
- MDu
- Gram weight
- 76.8 grams (necklace), 4.9 grams (both earrings together)
- About The Extremely Wearable Squash Blossom Necklace & Earrings
Naja and 12 squash blossoms alternate with hand-crafted sterling silver beads. Outer edges of the naja are enhanced with small silver balls, as are the petals of the squash blossoms. Twisted wire serves to separate the rows of stones, set in saw-tooth bezels.
Diversity personified in wide array of turquoise stones ranging from green to robin's egg to deep teal in color.
The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni cluster jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making, Volume II. Look at pages 48 and 49. The text goes so far as to explain why so many Zuni jewelry items use a serrated bezel. When stones being set are extremely small, the serrated bezel is a better mechanism for holding these stones firmly than the straight or smooth bezel.
- About Zuni
The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making. Volume II.
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