Örhängen, silver och ametister

Skruvörhängen med långa droppformade ametister. Antonio Pineda

Antonio Pineda is acknowledged as one of the Masters of silver jewelry during the Renaissance that occurred after the Mexican Revolution. When he a teenager, he was apprenticed briefly with William Spratling at Taller de las Delicias , where he learned to appreciate great design as well as developing his techniques of working silver. He later apprenticed with Valentin Vidaueretta, a painter and silversmith in Mexico City, returning to Taller de las Delicias as a salesman and manager. He opened his own taller in 1939 and by the early 1950s, was recognized internationally as a leading modernist artist. He work was prized internationally for its quality and design.

The proportion of these earrings is very pleasing. The silver fleur-de-lis anchors a movable dangle of silver and turquoise. Quality of the earrings is high.

Collection : Smycken