Santo Domingo Pueblo Red Spondulus Shell Earrings [SOLD]

The jewelers of Santo Domingo Pueblo are well known for their ability to work with shell. The use of shell as a jewelry material goes back centuries. These Red Spondylus Shell earrings are a testimony to an unknown artist’s ability to create a simple yet elegant ornament. Each earring is shaped and polished to bring out the natural beauty and orange red color of the shell. They hang from handmade sterling silver wires.

Provenance: From the estate of Transcendental artist Florence Pierce of Albuquerque who passed away in 2007 at the age of 89. She was best known for luminescent paintings made of pigmented resins on reflective surfaces. Her interest in abstraction began in the 1930s when she was an associate of the Transcendental Painting Group. The New York Times called her “the doyenne of abstract art in the Southwest” following her art exhibit in New York City in 2006.