The first soft weeks of summer are when the red medicine flowers: Indian paintbrush, the crimson petals of desert and prairie. In a week when they are in full flower, Wings honors their color and medicine, the water and light that calls them from the earth, with this heavy silver cuff set with fiery coral. The band is nine-gauge sterling silver, slender yet solid and substantial, its entire surface chased with deep, heavy, graceful freehand stampwork. Down the center, two rows of curving lines arc in and out like the path of the Great River, the silver between as clear and luminous as the Río’s surface. From either edge up to each flowing line, the band is texturized with deep single stamps, scores of strikes of the jeweler’s hammer rippling its surface. Between each break in the water’s path, paired flowers rise from either edge, stems curving and petals dancing in the light. Across the top three round, highly-domed, bezel-set, richly textured cabochons of natural sponge coral evoke all the shades of the flowers that serve as one of our most ancient Indigenous medicines. At either end of the band, paired wildflowers dance in the embrace of deeply textured earth. The band is 6″ long by 3/8″ across; the coral cabochons are each 1/4″ across (dimensions approximate). Other views shown below.
Sterling silver; sponge coral
$1,500 + shipping, handing, and insurance
SOLD
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