Heavy Ingot Cuff with Magnificent Bisbee Turquoise
Ramon Platero
- Item Purchased
- Savvy Price $975.00
- Gallery Price $1,200.00
- Title
- Heavy Ingot Cuff with Magnificent Bisbee Turquoise
- Artist
- Ramon Platero
- Medium
- Sterling silver and natural turquoise
- Troy ounces
- 2.71 troy ounces
- Size
- Interior measurement is 5 1/4" plus 1 1/4" gap, will fit 6 1/2" wrist. 1 1/2" height of band.
- Signed
- Not signed
- Date of creation
- 1970's
- Condition
- Excellent
- Turquoise
- Highest grade natural Bisbee turquoise
- Provenance
- Br Li
- Gram weight
- 84.4 grams
- About The Heavy Ingot Cuff with Magnificent Bisbee Turquoise
Sterling silver sheet and swedged wire worked from ingot. Four (4) natural elongated freeform turquoise stones are smooth bezel set with one of three (3) hand-made leaves between each. On each leaf is a large silver drop at the base.
The background is stamped with a fine chisel line texture looking like flowing water as light moves over the surface when the bracelet is rotated. From one end to the other, the cuff width increases 1 1/4" to 1 7/16" lending a dynamic sweep to the piece overall. The carinated borders provided added dramatic depth.
The type of Bisbee in this cuff is called "Lavender Pit" because where the red and lamp black matrix meets the blue, an illusion of lavender or purple is created.
- About Ramon Platero
- Navajo (1930-2003) Son of the well-known Navajo silversmith, Pablo Platero, Ramon or Ramone Platero was active from the early 1950's as a jeweler. Early on became Ramon became known for the use of leaf imagery in his creations. His work is housed by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
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