Petit Navajo Stamped Sterling Silver Ashtray [SOLD]
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- Category: Silver Objects
- Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
- Medium: sterling silver
- Size: 2-1/2” x 1-5/8”
- Item # C4281.40 SOLD
This is a small Navajo sterling silver ashtray with precise stamped designs. The four-part design in the bowl is comprised of semicircles and triangles, each surrounded by very fine parallel lines. Around the rim of the bowl is a series of connected circles, each arched by a rainbow of rectangular bars. The two cigarette holders were elaborately stamped with small silver dots and parallel lines. The bowl is supported on three half silver balls.
Condition: this Petit Navajo Stamped Sterling Silver Ashtray is in very good condition
Provenance: from the extensive collection of a client from Washington, D.C.
Recommended Reading:
- Masterworks and Eccentricities: The Druckman Collection
- Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry and Metalwork 1880-1950 by Robert Bauver
Relative Links: Diné of the Navajo Nation, Southwest Indian Jewelry: Silver Objects
- Category: Silver Objects
- Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
- Medium: sterling silver
- Size: 2-1/2” x 1-5/8”
- Item # C4281.40 SOLD
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