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Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American (23)

MID-CENTURY ECUADORIAN SILVER EMERALDS CAT PIN PENDANT Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1970 item# 1144170 (stock# RL508)
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Sassy, classy kitty ... This brooch pendant is a wonderful example of the superb workmanship and splendid imagination that make mid-century Ecuadorian silver jewelry so captivating and collectible. Handwrought in .925 silver, it depicts a decidedly fetching feline strutting her stuff. Displaying an intricately chased, textural body in matte silver, as well as meticulous cutwork detailing, the cat's ears, nose, and whiskers are fashioned in polished silver and surmounted to the base. As a ...click for details

LAFFI ERA MID-CENTURY PERUVIAN SILVER LLAMAS BROOCH Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1142871 (stock# RL506)
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Delightful Laffi-era Llamas ... This fabulous, handwrought, silver brooch boasts a dazzling fusion of traditional Andean imagery and stylized, modernist form. With an iconic motif—two long-haired llamas standing side by side—the deeply convex figures display minimalist chasing, exacting cutwork, and applied silver beading for the llama eyes. And it's all surmounted to the unadorned framework of an open silver circle. Wearable art both elegant and endearing in design, the pin makes a fabul ...click for details

GUAYASAMIN ERA ECUADORIAN SILVER + AMETHYST BIRD BROOCH Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1142352 (stock# RL501)
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Primitive ~ Modernist ~ Timeless ... Boasting both pre-Hispanic and modernist attributes—greatly evocative of works by renowned artists Oswaldo Guayasamin and Joaquin Tinta—this Ecuadorian brooch dates to the 1950's. Masterfully handwrought in .900 silver and boasting sublime texture and dimension, it depicts a stylized rooster. The figure is composed of a heavily chased body to which highly polished silver elements have been surmounted. These elements—including the bird's crown-like ...click for details

GUATEMALAN MILAGROS + CROSS SILVER CHARM NECKLACE Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1980 item# 1138653 (stock# RL495)
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Fabulous folkloric find! ... This splendid, Guatemalan handiwork dates to the 1970's. Its generous and traditional chain is composed of interlocking, twisted silver rings, embellished with decorative beads, including silver hollow disks, pierced spheres, and multicolored, art glass beads in a variety of shapes and sizes. Gracing the lower section of the necklace, on either side, is an assortment of dangling, silver metal milagro charms, adorned with glass beads, which leads to an imposing ...click for details

RARE 50’s ECUADOR TINTA SILVER MALACHITE PARROT PIN Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1136060 (stock# RL485)
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Ecuador’s premier silver maestro … Mexico has its William Spratling. Peru its Graziella Laffi. And Ecuador celebrates its own distinctive niche of fine silver making, born from the singular imagination and skilled hands of Joaquin Tinta. Raised in Sangolqui, an Ecuadorian city known as the cradle of silversmiths, Tinta studied with renowned artist Oswaldo Guayasamin, before opening his own workshop in the 1950’s. There he produced an eclectic mix of silver jewelry and art whose minimalist, mode ...click for details

RARE LARGE G. LAFFI PERU MODERNIST SILVER ENAMEL PIN Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1133915 (stock# RL477)
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"The Spratling of Peru" ... Florentine-born, Graziella Laffi lived and worked in Lima, Peru, producing singular silver and gold jewelry, as well as holloware, in pre-Columbian, folkloric, and modernist motifs. Most aficionados believe that her creations rival the classic pieces that came out of Mexico. With Ms. Laffi's passing in 2009, her works—among today's hottest collectibles in the field—are becoming less easy to find and even more desirable. ...click for details

’50s PERUVIAN CHAVEZ WELSCH SILVER ENAMEL FISH BROOCH Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1133626 (stock# RL475)
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Primitive ~ Modernist ~ Timeless ... Displaying pre-Columbian and modernist attributes, this sublime brooch boasts quite a pedigree! Not only is it evocative of works by Graziella Laffi, the "Spratling of Peru," but it also bears the signature of Chavez, a noted but hard-to-find Peruvian silver maker, as well as the llama mark of prestigious Lima, Peru, jewelry shop Welsch. Deeply convex in form, the handwrought piece is a superb, technical fusion of meticulous, serrated cutwork, de ...click for details

GUATEMALAN CACTUS PEPPERS SILVER + BRASS NECKLACE Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1980 item# 1129199 (stock# RL461)
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Festive fusion of folkloric color + charm! ... This unusual Guatemalan handiwork dates to the 1960's or `70s. With its generous chain made up of interlocking silvertone loops and brass beads, the necklace is fabulously festooned with dangling cactus charms, in both silver and brass metals, which boast a variety of sizes, textures, and designs—including a stylized, silver metal pear cactus pendant at the center, made up of four connected, moving parts. As if that were not enough, the artis ...click for details

ULTIMATE PERUVIAN G. LAFFI SILVER OPEN CUFF BRACELET Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1128557 (stock# RL457)
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"The Spratling of Peru" ... Florentine-born, Graziella Laffi lived and worked in Lima, Peru, producing singular silver and gold jewelry and holloware in pre-Columbian, folkloric, and modernist motifs. Most aficionados believe that her creations rival the classic pieces that came out of Mexico. With Ms. Laffi's passing in 20 ...click for details

REMARKABLE PERU LAFFI ERA SILVER + ENAMEL BIB NECKLACE Catalogue: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Latin American: Pre 1960 item# 1128469 (stock# RL456)
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Dynamic design ~ Creative construction ... I have had the pleasure to collect and sell pieces by this Peruvian silver maker known only as GML, whose jewelry is best recognized for its vivacious, mottled or "marbled" enameling and sculptural silver figurals. Obviously a contemporary of Graziella Laffi, GML is equally well-versed in both ancient and modern motifs. This necklace is an outstanding example of the artist's work. Composed of a delicately wrought rolo chain, it holds ei ...click for details

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