Description | Massive beauty! This gorgeous artfully cut and polished slab of natural deep to medium blue turquoise is like wearing a piece of the sunlit heavens reflected in a slow, clear stream. The silver setting is clean and simple with a scallop notched half round wire frame surrounding a rine rope twist at the bas eof a deep smooth bezel. This handsome pendant is suspended from a very heavy hand-made silver chair 32" in length. Such a prize can be well worn by any man or woman in love with turquoise and silver. Created almost 40 years ago by a skilled Navajo artist, this work was never signed. An artist is known by family and friends. Unmarked jewelry is seldom made for tourists . . . Rare at anytime to find such a good large stone which has been cut to conserve as much as possible of the scarce material. |
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About the Artist | "Dineh or Diné are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. They are the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States with over 300,000 enrolled tribal members as of 2015. The Navajo reservation occupies over 27,000 square miles of land in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Navajo language is spoken throughout the reservation with most Navajos speaking English as well." excerpted from Wikipedia
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Medium | Sterling silver and natural turquoise |
Size | 32" chain, 3" height X 2 9/16" width pendant excluding 1/4" bale |
Signed | No |
Date of creation | Circa 1970's |
Condition | Excellent with almost 40 year patina |
Turquoise | Deep to medium blue natural North American Morenci or Turquoise Mountain, flecked with light blue and brown |
Design | Fabrication from commercially prepared sheet silver file carved with hand-cut bezel. Chain hand-made from silver wire 3/16" in width. |
Provenance | Consigned by gentleman who inherited his grandmother's art collection CP 3043 |