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A group of early Charles Loloma jewelry image 1
A group of early Charles Loloma jewelry image 2
Property of Various Owners, Lots 89-94
Lot 91P

A group of early Charles Loloma jewelry

1 May 2020, 10:00 PDT
Los Angeles

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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Charles Loloma

Hopi, (1921-1999), comprising a tufa-cast silver pendant with banded zigzag design, the artist's iconic signature an integral part of the concave interior; along with an unmarked pair of similarly conceived earrings and another solitary example, of hammered silver with chisel-work decoration.
length of pendant 4 3/8in, length of each earring 1 1/2in

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Provenance
Purchased directly from the artist by Charlotte Eldridge, an early Phoenix television personality, thence by descent

See Struever, Martha Hopkins, Loloma - Beauty Is His Name, Wheelright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM, 2004 for a nearly identical pendant, pictured in a series of fashion photographs taken circa 1956 by Stuart Weiner, p.13, fig. 13., and a similar example in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, p.53, fig. 23. Struever notes that "For some of his earliest tufa-cast silver, Loloma carved his signature into one side of the mold, which made it stand out in relief on the finished piece. He apparently signed this way for only a brief period of time." Ibid. p.198

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