Zuni Puebloan Artist~ VIVIANITA BOOQUA"-Contemporary Sleeping Beauty Turquoise - Flush Inlay Sterling Hoop Earrings- Very Wearable!
Zuni Puebloan Artist~ VIVIANITA BOOQUA"-Contemporary Sleeping Beauty Turquoise - Flush Inlay Sterling Hoop Earrings- Very Wearable!
Zuni Puebloan artist "Vivianita Booqua" is known for her impeccable 'flush inlay' work where she cuts each one of her stones that fit like a glove in their bezel & lay flush with the height of the bezel.
Contemporary in style, but traditional in technique, these are a forward facing hoop that are made with the most beautiful baby blue color Sleeping Beauty turquoise that Vivianita cut into tear drop & round cuts that are then laid upward in the hoop while the center bottom cuts face downward in order to add additional length to the design.
They are given a mirror-high polished finishing, which gives them the contemporary look they have & even though they're made with turquoise which we relate with the southwest, these can be worn in OR out of the southwest! They have a weight your ears will love & would make a great everyday/go-to earring!(See 'combined weight' below)
INFO
ARTIST: Vivianita Booqua
TRIBE: Zuni Pueblo, NM
MEASUREMENT: 2-5/8" x 1-1/2"
METAL: Sterling
FINISH: Contemporary
STONE: Sleeping Beauty Turquoise
COMBINED WEIGHT: 10.8 grams
TECHNIQUE: Hand Cut Stone/Hand Made Chain Connectors/Flush Inlay
HALLMARK:BOVB/Zuni(Hand Inscribed)
COME GIFT BOXED
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PLEASE READ:
In order to give you close up photos so I can provide you with all the detail, photos can tend to make the item look much more larger & everything is more magnified & exaggerated than in actuality. Close up's make the item look so large & then you get it in hand & you are shocked since the item is much smaller than how they looked in the photos..So to get an accurate idea of how big these are,please zoom in on photos 2 & 8 or you can pull out a tape measure & compare to my given measurements.
