Verma Nequatewa 'Sonwai' Sugilite, Coral, Turquoise and Gold Earrings 1993

A silver ring with gold bezel encasing a large Royston turquoise by Verma Nequatewa, c. 2018. Hopi. Stamped Sonwai, and maker's mark. Artist Jewel. Ri...

Ebony, Vermillion wood, Lone Mountain turquoise, lapis lazuli, yellow gold and sterling silver height inlay cuff, with stones and wood set in a...

A lapis lazuli, coral, turquoise and 14 karat yellow gold ring, by Richard Chavez, 1997. Signed with maker's mark. Ring size 7. Chavez (San Felipe Pueblo), goldsmith and lapidary, ...

A Bisbee turquoise, lapis, coral, wood, 14 yellow karat gold and sterling silver height inlay cuff. Signed E. Cummings, Stamped 14k. 5.5" terminal-to-terminal plus 1" opening. Cummings was born in 1962 in White Cone, Arizona. He studied painting and sculpture at the Institute of American Indian Arts...

A black jade, coral, turquoise and 14 karat gold ring, by master goldsmith & lapidary, San Felipe Pueblo, Richard Chavez, 1998. The ring is a size 8 US and is stamped with Richard Ch...

A lapis lazuli, coral, turquoise, wood and 14 karat gold shield ring, by Charles Loloma, c. 1970. Vintage jewelry. Signed Loloma, stamped 14k. Ring size 5. Similar examples are shown in the excellent book "Loloma: Beauty is His Name"by Martha Hopkins Streuver, 2005. This is a very finely made, elegant, Loloma shield ring using the highest-quality stones; a vintage jewel in excellent condition, and representative of the great artist jeweler Loloma's best work. The proportion of metal to stone is balanced and the color scheme is harmonious. The shield rings in gold have become hard to find. And the prices for the best jewelry by this transformative jeweler rise even further as witnessed by several recent auctions. This ring is a Loloma beauty, sits comfortably on the finger, and is an investment piece. Hopi artist Charles Loloma was one of the most influential 20th-century modernist jewelers. He was a Renaissance man of the times - a potter, a painter, a muralist, a poet, and a religious ceremonial leader. Living high on the Hopi mesas, he broke multiple imposed prohibitions on Native American jewelers and despite being excluded in his early years from important shows because his jewelry was not Ïndian enough" he simply continued working and changed the arc of his peoples' jewelry making and universal jewelry culture forever. (Loloma told his doubters, it was sufficient that he was an Indian for his jewelry to be considered Indian jewelry.) Through his modernist influence on jewelry, he transformed the design and lapidary techniques - height inlay, styles of shanks and bezel settings, and the use of new materials - lapis lazuli, wood, gold - in much of southwestern Native American jewelry for generations to come, He introduced this new form of beauty to the broader world. Loloma's pieces can be found in almost all important museums and private collections. Frank Lloyd Wright was a client. Mahnaz Collection carries the finest Loloma jewelry (and select artworks) as well as the jewel works of his only two acknowledged proteges - his niece Verma Nequetewa aka Sonwai, and Eveli Sabatie.

Timeless complementary colors of blue and red are given a modern interpretation for these earrings. Above is turquoise, carved in a cushion cabochon. Below is red coral, in a rectang...

A pair of geometric, 18-carat gold, lapis, and white coral earrings, consisting of a round button and a navette shaped drop, each set with a cabochon cut slab of lapis and of white c...

Circa 1980s, 18k, by Forley, American. These earrings embody, fabulous eighties fashion! The look is fresh and colorful, a brushstroke of gold dotted with turquoise. The scale is bol...

Graceful and airy floral earrings with a central cabochon coral stone, The earrings have wonderful dimensionality . Although they are 1 1/4 inches in all directions, they do not appe...

14K yellow gold earrings featuring an oval shaped coral stone framed by a rope design. They measure 1 1/8 inches long by 7/8 inches wide and are a clip style.

Lovely airy 14 karat twisted gold earrings terminating with cabochon turquoise stones. The earrings are 7/8" wide and 1 inch long. Clip backs can be converted to posts.