Navajo Artists -Lorenzo & Jerilyn Chee -Hand Made Thunderbird Dangle-Oxidized Sterling Earrings with Turquoise Accents
Navajo Artists -Lorenzo & Jerilyn Chee -Hand Made Thunderbird Dangle-Oxidized Sterling Earrings with Turquoise Accents
Gallup based husband & wife team "Lorenzo & Jerilyn Chee" are up & coming artists that are putting out some nice hand made pieces that are very traditional Navajo in style. Lorenzo comes from a family of jewelers, with the well known silversmith "TIM YAZZIE" being his father who took Lorenzo under their wing & taught him the ropes of working with metal & stone..
THE EARRINGS:
No southwestern/Santa Fe'an style collection is complete without the all mighty "Thunderbird"!
Anchored from a small repousse concho top, these are made where Lorenzo 'free hand' cut the lighter gauge sterling bird that have been stamped detailing & are accented with cuts of turquoise.3 dangles hang from the bottom..These are a 'mirrored' earring where there's an actual 'right/left'' side & are worn where the face of the bird, faces the face.
Perfect earrings to wear with all your DDR (Double D Ranchwear) clothing & or any other western attire! These will express your love for "Any & all things southwest"! They have a weight your earrings will love & are as traditional as it gets! They will also compliment any of today's traditional Native American-Navajo jewelry-Southwestern jewelry!
ARTIST: Lorenzo & Jerilyn Chee
TRIBE: Navajo
MEASUREMENT: 3.75" X 1.50"(Longest length goes to center dangle-They measure 3.25" to the bottom of the side dangles)
WEIGHT: 16.2 grams
MATERIAL: Turquoise-Sterling
BEZEL: Serrated
METAL: Sterling
METAL FINISH: Satin/Matte/Oxidized
STYLE: Traditional Thunderbird Earrings
TECHNIQUE: Tooling-Repousse-Hand Cutting the Metal-Stone Setting
HALLMARK: "LJC" (For Lorenzo/Jerilyn Chee) Sterling
Come Gift Boxed
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PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING:
In order to give you close up photos so I can provide you with all the detail,the item can tend to make the item look much more larger & everything is more magnified 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 either check them out being worn to get a rough idea (photo 2) or you can pull out a tape measure & compare to my given measurements..
