Objects in space, from sun and stars to moon and earth itself, move by the work of orbital resonances, the gravitational pull between them setting their paths through the infinite. With this extraordinary old-style bolo, Wings honors the motion of celestial bodies, of the orbital paths and rotational forces that influence their mysterious journeys through whole worlds and planes of existence. This classic concha bolo is saw-cut, scalloped, scored, and stamped entirely freehand, shaped from the reverse using repoussé techniques to achieve the perfect doming, and set with an old Skystone of atmospheric power and beauty. Two concentric circles are scored at intervals around the concha, each layer defining a section of the domed shape. The scalloped edges are adorned with radiant arcs over growing-medicine motifs, the pair of symbols signifying the path and purpose of the light. The central ring of stampwork consists of some sixty stylized points, each nested within the next, all aimed in a single unifying direction, imparting a tightly coiled and orderly, yet utterly powerful sense of motion. Within the central ring are two nested circles of stampwork: inner bars on the vertical ending in outer points, all rendered impossibly deeply and evenly, like the feathers of a great cosmic Spirit Bird. Those “feathers” emanate from beneath the extraordinary focal at the very center, an old, round, highly domed cabochon of natural spiderweb turquoise from Wings’s collection, its color a soft and gentle layering of blues and greens finely webbed by red-black veins — too old, by now, to identify provenance, but the classic colors of Montezuma, with the floating layers characteristic of Royston — set into an ultra-fine hand-wrought bezel, each segment individually saw-cut, filed, and shaped to the stone by hand. The concha hangs from a lighter-weight cord of rich braided black leather, its tips ending in a molded combination shaped as fluted saucer and round beads. Bolo concha is 2-1/4″ across; cabochon is 38″ across; cord is 44″ long; tips are 2-1/4″ long by 1/2″ across at the widest point of the saucers at the ends (dimensions approximate). Other views shown below.
Sterling silver; old blue-green spiderweb turquoise, likely Montezuma or Royston
$1,500 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
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