Petit Navajo Stamped Sterling Silver Ashtray [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